Philip Pirrip (Pip), as a boy, has great expectations of becoming a gentleman. His dreams are realized, but he finds they are shallow. Through a series of fateful circumstances, he changes from a boy of false standards to a man of character.
Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be raised and educated as a gentleman. Includes a map of early nineteenth-century Kent, and notes on Dickens's working methods.
Contains the complete text of the 1860 novel about Pip, an orphan in Victorian England who is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman; and includes a critical introduction and a chronology.
Pip's life as a blacksmith's apprentice in Victorian England changes drastically when he is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman--and an equal with the contemptuous Estella.
Contains an abridged version of the 1860 novel about Pip, an orphan in Victorian England who is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.
The story of Pip, an orphan in Victorian England who is informed one day that he has "great expectations" and is to be educated and reared as a gentleman.