01372 a2200193 4500001000700000020001500007040003200022100002100054245002300075260001100098362000900109490002800118520093600146650001201082650002701094650001301121650002201134650002201156122830 a0140620168 cEscola Canadense de Niteroi aDickens, Charles10aGreat expectations aLondon0 a19940 aPeguin Popular Classics aWhen seven-year-old orphan Pip meets Estella, the adopted daughter of the wealthy spinster Miss Havisham, he falls in love with her despite her cold and contemptuous ways. Pip is determined to escape poverty and become a gentleman to win Estella’s affections. Miss Havisham, however, arranges for him to become merely a common labourer in his brother-in-law’s business, disappointing Pip greatly. But the arrival of a lawyer from London gives Pip hope when he learns that he has a secret, wealthy benefactor. Pip travels to London to begin his education as a gentleman, still hoping to endear himself to Estella. Then, one day, a boyhood kind deed returns, altering the course of Pip’s life when he learns the identity of his benefactor…Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens’s finest and most well received novels – a coming-of-age story about social ambition, love, crime and the disappointment of expectations. 4aPoverty 4aYoung Adult Literature 4aAmbition 4aRomance (English) 4aSocial Inequality