TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles TI - Great Expectations AV - PR PY - 1998/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Orphans -- Fiction KW - England -- Fiction KW - Revenge -- Fiction KW - Bildungsromans KW - Young men -- Fiction KW - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction KW - Ex-convicts -- Fiction KW - Benefactors -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations; Release date is 1998-07-01; An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens is a novel first published serially from 1860 to 1861. The story follows Pip, a young orphan living with his sister and her blacksmith husband on England's coastal marshes. After a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict and strange visits to the bitter Miss Havisham and her cold adopted daughter Estella, Pip's life transforms when he mysteriously receives a fortune from an unknown benefactor. This bildungsroman explores wealth and poverty, love and rejection, through vivid characters and dramatic scenes that have captivated readers for generations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400 ER -