Great Expectations: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008325901 ISBN 13: 9780008325909

Publisher: Collins, 2019

Synopsis

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR

Level & Subject: GCSE English Literature

Next exam: June 2027

This edition of Great Expectations is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms.

‘Hold your noise!’ cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. ‘Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!’

So begins Charles Dickens’s 1861 bildungsroman, the story of the orphan Pip who is catapulted from the desolate Kent marshes of his childhood to become a young gentleman in London.

Who is Pip’s mysterious benefactor? And what role will the troubling figures of escaped convict Magwitch, decaying bride Miss Havisham and the beautiful but aloof Estella play in his prospects?

Told through the first-person voice of the older Pip, this story of great expectations suggests gains always come at a price. Dickens depicts both the horrors of the early nineteenth-century penal system and the rapid rise and fall of fortunes that Victorian society permitted.

About this title

About the Author

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008325901
• ISBN 13: 9780008325909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640