Dickens .:. Great Expectations

Dickens, Charles,
Great Expectations. London, Glasgow: Collins, 1959. 414 Seiten mit einer Abbildung als Frontispiz und Literaturverzeichnis. Leinen mit Farbkopfschnitt und Schutzumschlag.

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* Introduction by Kenneth Hayens. Etikette auf verso Vorsatzblatt "Sonderausgabe für die Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt".
Bestell-Nr.154713

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Dickens | Englische Literatur

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This is the story of how Philip Pirrip (Pip) the village boy brought up by his termagant sister, the wife of the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargary, undergoes a series of fateful events in the course of which his false standards of wealth and behaviour become transformed to those of a man of character. In his youth Pip is influenced by the eccentric Miss Haversham whose mind is deranged as a result of the desertion of her lover on her bridal night. Thus thwarted of happiness, she seeks vicarious revenge on all men by encouraging her niece Estella to use her beauty to entice and bring heart-break. Pip, in love with Estella, realises his expectations when he is given a fortune by an unknown bene-factor, forsakes his humble friends, moves to London and aspires to become a gentleman. Adversity overtakes him, his dreams fade, penury brings him near starvation, and he is about to be arrested for debt when Joe Gargary saves him. How he returns home, finds honest work, amends his ways and eventually finds happiness is told with the skill and dexterity of a master.

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