Great Expectations (Oberon Modern Plays)

by Charles Dickens (Author), NeilBartlett (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $19.25

  Using only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words, this adaptation brings the story's settings and characters to theatrical life. From its opening image of little Pip, alone on the windswept marshes, it takes you on a journey right to the heart of Dickens' great exploration of childhood terrors and hopes - and of adult dreams and regrets.

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.29

• Used

  Hardcover
  1979

  $14.11

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $7.00

  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 and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and 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 and the convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the truth about himself.