Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Great expectations, with 6 illus. by Warwick Goble. - London : The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1987. - 520 p. : ill. ; 15 cm. - Oxford world's classics .

A convict in a bleak Essex churchyard; the half-crazed Miss Havisham, brooding amidst the ruins of an abandoned wedding breakfast; the lovely but inaccessible Estella, brough up to torment men...These and many other immortal characters play their part in the life of Pip, the young village boy whose expectations are transformed by a mysterious legacy, in this enduring novel of life in Victorian England.

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Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Benefactors--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.