Drop Cap #5
Penguin Classics
December 2012
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Featuring: Pip
592 pages ISBN: 0143123793 EAN: 9780143123798 Hardcover (reprint) Add to Wish List
D is for Dickens. The orphan Pip is destined to
become a blacksmith like his brother-in-law Joe. But when
Pip meets the beautiful Estella Havisham, he yearns for a
gentleman’s education in order to woo her. A mysterious
legacy answers his ambition, and changes the course of his
life, taking him far from the Marshes of youth—far, so he
thinks, from his early terrifying encounter with an escaped
convict, and his sister’s class resentments. In this
fictional autobiography, Pip’s coming-of-age story becomes
representative of the changing social landscape of
nineteenth century England. As Pip’s education provides
upward social mobility, he must also learn hard lessons
about self-delusion and forgiveness, love and loss, and the
true nature of his Great Expectations.