Great Expectations [Hardcover]

Great Expectations begins with a boy in a churchyard helping a convict, and traces how that single act reshapes everything he later believes about his own rise in the world. This Penguin Select Classics hardcover runs 496 pages and carries the full text. Pip narrates as an older man looking back, which gives the book its double vision: the snobbery, the wasted money and the misread gratitude are all visible to the teller even as the younger self walks into them. Miss Havisham's stopped house and the marshes of the opening chapters are among the most reproduced settings in English fiction. Things worth knowing: • 496-page hardcover, Penguin Select Classics • Narrated in retrospect by Pip himself • Moves between the Kent marshes and London society • A common choice for secondary school set texts Well matched to students studying Dickens and to readers who want a lasting hardcover of the novel, published under Penguin Select Classics and available at Boipoka.