Great Expectations (Oberon Modern Plays)

by Charles Dickens (Author), NeilBartlett (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $19.02

  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
  2009

  $3.25

  From the agony of Charles Dickens disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values.An orphan living with his older sister and her kindly husband, Pip is hired by wealthy and embittered Miss Havisham as a companion for her and her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella. His years in service to the Havishams fill his heart with the desire to rise above his station in life. Pip s wish is fulfilled when a mysterious benefactor provides him with great expectations the means to be tutored as a gentleman. Thrust into London s high-society circles, Pip grows accustomed to a life of leisure, only to find himself lacking as a suitor competing for Estella s favor. After callously discarding everything he once valued for his own selfish pursuits, Pip learns the identity of his patron a revelation that shatters his very soul. With an Introduction by Stanley Weintraub and an Afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff

• New

  Paperback
  1992

  $6.92

  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.