& Hold your noise! Keep still you little devil or I&ll cut your throat!& Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a terrifying encounter with a convict on the lonely marshes will later transform his life Pip is more troubled by his visits to strange old Miss Havisham
- her decaying wedding dress & the house full of memories
- & the beautiful girl Estella who makes him ashamed of his country manners & coarse hands A blacksmith&s apprentice could never hope to win Estella but then young Pip&s future might not turn out quite as expected

Includes:: exclusive material In ‘ The Backstory’ you can learn about Victorian convicts & the alternative ending to Great Expectations! Vintage Children’s Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time



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I have been bent & broken but
- I hope
- into a better shape' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional

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Pip&s life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins & up the social ladder His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals Pip&s desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella but secrets from the past impede his progress & he has many hard lessons to learn ...

The classic novel brought to life in full colour! 'I never saw my father or my mother & never saw any likeness of either of them' No classical collection would be complete without this well-loved Dickens title The wonderful tale of Pip Miss Havisham & the spiteful Estella is retold here with fresh enthusiasm contained within rich Victorian ambiance for a wonderful reading experience ...

'I never saw my father or my mother & never saw any likeness of either of them' No classical collection would be complete without this well-loved Dickens title The wonderful tale of Pip Miss Havisham & the spiteful Estella is retold here with fresh enthusiasm contained within rich Victorian ambience for a wonderful reading experience ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means In the gloom of a country graveyard the young boy encounters an escaped convict & a chance meeting years later leads the boy to mysterious adventure wealth & joy ...

An unknown benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing Aspiring to be a gentleman & encouraged by his expectations of wealth he abandons his friends & moves to London His expectations prove to be unfounded however & he must return home penniless 462 pages Dickens Charles ...

Pip doesn't expect much from life His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her But suddenly things begin to change Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman & meets the icy beauty Estella 544 pages Dickens Charles ...

Considered by many to be Dickens& finest novel Great Expectations traces the growth of the book&s narrator Philip Pirrip (Pip) from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes the story abounds with some of Dickens& most memorable characters Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch the eccentric Miss Haversham & her beautiful ward Estella Pip&s good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket & the pompous Pumblechook As Pip unravels the truth behind his own &great expectations& in his quest to become a gentleman the mysteries of the past & the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity & his most important discovery of all
- the truth about himself
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& It was now too late & too far to go back & I went on & the mists had all solemnly risen now & the world lay spread before me’A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter decaying Miss Havisham & her beautiful cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor – these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip’s life forever & he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman Dickens’s haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education & development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his ‘great expectations’ This definitive edition uses the text from the first published edition of 1861 It

Includes:: a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century & appendices on Dickens’s original ending & his working notes giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work

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