Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; retold by Florence Bell
By: Dickens, Charles [author].
Contributor(s): Bell, Florence [adapter].
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BookSeries: Macmillan readers, upper level.Publisher: Oxford : Macmillan Heinemann ELT, [2005]Description: 95 pages : illustrations + 2 audio CD.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405076821.Subject(s): Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Young men -- Fiction | England -- FictionGenre/Form: Summary: "The first-person narrative relates the coming-of-age of Pip (Philip Pirrip). Reared in the marshes of Kent by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the young Pip one day helps a convict to escape. Later he is sent to live with Miss Havisham, a woman driven half-mad years earlier by her lover's departure on their wedding day ... When an anonymous benefactor makes it possible for Pip to go to London for an education, he credits Miss Havisham ... Pip's benefactor turns out to have been Abel Magwitch, the convict he once aided, who dies awaiting trial after Pip is unable to help him a second time. Joe rescues Pip from despair and nurses him back to health." Merriam-Webster's Ency of Lit.
| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Main Library Reference Section | Reference | R 823 D548g 2005 (Browse shelf) | c. 1 | Room use only | 19338QC |
"The first-person narrative relates the coming-of-age of Pip (Philip Pirrip). Reared in the marshes of Kent by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the young Pip one day helps a convict to escape. Later he is sent to live with Miss Havisham, a woman driven half-mad years earlier by her lover's departure on their wedding day ... When an anonymous benefactor makes it possible for Pip to go to London for an education, he credits Miss Havisham ... Pip's benefactor turns out to have been Abel Magwitch, the convict he once aided, who dies awaiting trial after Pip is unable to help him a second time. Joe rescues Pip from despair and nurses him back to health." Merriam-Webster's Ency of Lit.
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