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Great Expectations

With a new introduction by Stanley Weintraub
1998
The orphan Pip, the convict Magwitch, the beautiful Estella and her guardian, the embittered and vengeful Miss Havisham, the strangely ambiguous figure of the master lawyer Mr. Jaggers--all play their part in a story whose very title reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens' searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.

Great expectations

2001
After harsh early years, Pip, an orphan growing up in Victorian England, is given the means to become a gentlman by an unknown benefactor and learns that outward appearances can be deceiving.

Great expectations

the graphic novel : quick text version
2009
A graphic novel retelling of Charles Dickens' novel in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, learns that a mysterious benefactor has ensured that he will be educated and raised as a gentleman.

Heir to the glimmering world

2004
Eighteen-year-old orphan Rose Meadows, hired on as assistant to German immigrant Professor Mitwisser in Depression era New York, soon finds herself filling many roles in the chaotic household, and things become further complicated when she becomes involved with the Mitwisser's equally eccentric benefactor, James A'bair.

Great expectations

the graphic novel
2010
A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

Great expectations

the graphic novel : original text version
2009
A graphic novel adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations" in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.

Great expectations

2009
An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.

The promise

how one woman made good on her extraordinary pact to send a classroom of first graders to college
2005
Presents the story of Oral Lee Brown who promised to finance the college education of twenty-three first-grade students in 1987, made good on that promise, and continued to support dozens of children in the same manner afterwards.

The judges

a novel
2002
When five passengers from a plane that was forced down by bad weather are taken in by a stranger who calls himself the Judge, they find themselves being interrogated by the man and forced to face the truth and meaning of their lives.

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