Great Expectations Penguin English Library
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The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens What do you think that is she asked me again pointing with her stick that where those cobwebs are I can t guess what it is ma am It s a great cake A bride cake Mine Great Expectations Dickens s funny frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip s journey of self discovery is one of his best loved works Showing how a young man s life is transformed by a mysterious series of events an encounter with an escaped prisoner a visit to a black hearted old woman and a beautiful girl a fortune from a secret donor Dickens s late novel is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth and Pip among his greatest creations The Penguin English Library 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War
