01422 a2200217 4500 122830 0140620168 Escola Canadense de Niteroi Dickens, Charles Great expectations London 1994 Peguin Popular Classics When 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. Poverty Young Adult Literature Ambition Romance (English) Social Inequality BK 0 0 0 0 12.10 12.10 2024-02-09 0 A31980 2024-02-09 21:18:59 2024-02-09 BK 122830 122830