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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Paper book: €67.99

Digital: €16.99

Original publication
1861
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
1367
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Romance, Psychology
Moods
Understand myself, Be moved to tears, Fall in love
Translated from
English

Book summary

Pip, a young orphan, is brought up by his sister and her husband Joe, a kind-hearted blacksmith, in the Kent marshes. One evening in the churchyard, he comes across an escaped convict who terrifies him. Then he is invited to the house of Miss Havisham, an old lady who still wears her wedding dress, and who lives with the beautiful, cold Estella.

The day an unknown benefactor offers to make him a gentleman in London, Pip's life is turned upside down. His dreams, his mistakes and his illusions make him one of Dickens's most endearing heroes.

Pip tells his own story, and this great novel is a pleasure to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

Two meetings that change a boy’s life. Pip, a little boy, lives in the marshes with his big sister, who is married to Joe, a kind blacksmith.

The world of the book

The Thames marshes, around 1812. The story begins in England. Pip, the young hero, grows up in the marshes beside the Thames: flat, damp land, often wrapped in fog.

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