Authors: Charles Dickens, Linda Jennings
ISBN-13: 9780140366815, ISBN-10: 0140366814
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: June 1995
Edition: Abridged Edition
Charles Dickens is probably the greatest novelist England ever produced. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life -- along with his memorable characters -- have made him beloved by readers the world over. In Dickens' books live some of the most repugnant villains in literature, as well as some of the most likeable (and unlikely) heroes.
The engrossing epic of murder, mystery and money.
As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole lifean escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Havisham, whose beautiful, cold ward Estella young Pip adores. But when a secret benefactor pays for him to go to London to become a gentleman, Pip never dreams he will meet the dreadful Magwitch again, nor just how wrong his expectations are…
This editon has been specially abridged for Puffin Classics.
Mr. Dickens may be reasonably proud of these volumes.... he has written a story that is new, original, powerful and very entertaining.... It is in his best vein, and although it is too slight, and bears many traces of hasty writing, it is quite worthy to stand beside Martin Chuzzlewit and David Copperfield.