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Great expectations : abridged for young readers / Charles Dickens, A.L. Kennedy.

Young orphan Pip, downtrodden and mistreated by his guardian sister, has a terrifying meeting with an escaped convict. Soon afterwards he is invited to play at the gloomy, cobwebbed house of unhappy Miss Havisham, where he is humiliated by her beautiful ward, Estella. Pip falls in love with the girl, despite her disdain for his ignorance and rough appearance, and begins his apprenticeship to his blacksmith brother-in-law feeling ashamed of his lowly home. Then Pip is told he is to be brought up as a wealthy gentleman, and he delightedly assumes his secret benefactor to be Miss Havisham, planning him as a match him for Estella. When he discovers this is not the case, his heart is broken and his loyalties torn. What is the connection between Miss Havisham and the mysterious convict? And will Pip ever win Estella's heart?
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Published: London : Walker Books Ltd, 2024.
288 pages ; 20 cm.
Walker abridged classics

28 copies

Great expectations / an old book by Charles Dickens ; with new doodles by Jack Noel ; abridged by Liz Bankes.

Ten-year-old Pip gets the fright of his life when he meets an escaped convict in a spooky graveyard. And that's just the beginning of an adventure that will lead him to a house full of secrets, a strange old lady and a journey to the big city to seek his fortune. But Pip is in for a BIG surprise. Join Pip in a rip-roaring story of family secrets, scary grannies and a REALLY annoying big sister.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Published: London : Farshore, 2023.
259 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Comic classics

19 copies

Great expectations [electronic resource]

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Great Expectations, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.When the orphan Pip is taken to the house of Miss Havisham, he meets and falls in love with Estella. Estella is beautiful but cold and Pip decides that he will become rich so that he can marry her. Later he learns that somebody has given him a lot of money, but Pip does not know who this person is.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteRegister to access online resources including tests, worksheets and answer keys. Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook).
Author: Dickens, Charles
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2021
1 online resource (1 text file)
Penguin Readers

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Great expectations / an old book by Charles Dickens ; with new doodles by Jack Noel.

Old books get new doodles - it's the classics as you've never seen them before! 'Comic Classics' brings great literature to life with illustrations by Jack Noel. Perfect for fans of Tom Gates, Wimpy Kid and Dav Pilkey - and Charles Dickens!
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Published: London : Egmont, 2020.
259 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 19 cm.
Comic classics

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Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; adapted by Philip Gooden ; illustrations by Pipi Sposito.

Pip's just your average boy. He has no parents, lives with his scary sister and once met an escaped criminal on Christmas Eve - in the middle of a graveyard. Totally normal. And things get even stranger when a mysterious stranger starts paying him loads of money. Sure, Pip's loving his new life of luxury, but will he ever find out who's paying the bills, and what they want from him in return?
Author: Gooden, Philip
2020 edition.
Published: Leicester : Sweet Cherry, 2020.
88 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Charles Dickens children's collection
Easy classics

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Great expectations / Kathy Acker.

This is a punk, fairy-tale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator - familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and creativity, social unrest, feminism, porn and sadism. S/he becomes a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw.
Author: Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997
Published: London : Penguin Classics, 2018.
208 pages ; 20 cm.
Penguin modern classics

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The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years [electronic resource] : Eight BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations

Enthralling radio dramatisations of eight of Charles Dickens' much-loved novels.Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this second digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes eight of his classic novels.This collection includes the epic masterpiece David Copperfield, described by Dickens as his 'favourite child'; suspenseful mystery Bleak House; Dickens' most openly political novel, Hard Times; and Little Dorrit, a sweeping tale of imprisonment, poverty and riches. Also included are A Tale of Two Cities, set during the French Revolution; coming-of-age novel Great Expectations; sweeping satire of wealth and corruption Our Mutual Friend; and Dickens' final, unfinished story, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.With a star cast including Robert Glenister, Robert Lindsay, Honeysuckle Weeks, Kenneth Cranham, Sir Ian McKellen, Alison Steadman, Geraldine McEwan, Andrew Scott and Ian Holm, these radio adaptations bring Dickens' imaginative world to colourful, captivating life.
Author: Dickens, Charles
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : BBC Digital Audio, 2018
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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Great expectations / Charles Dickens.

'I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. Pip's desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Published: London : Vintage Classic, 2017.
512 pages ; 22 cm.
Vintage classics Dickens series

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Great Expectations [electronic resource]

Pip moves to London where, only after many trials, does he learn humility and the value of loyalty. Key Dickens characters abound – the convict Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and the pompous Pumblechook. Great Expectations was first published as a complete novel in October 1861 shortly after its serialisation in All The Year Round. Like David Copperfield, it drew on his early life, especially the trials of a boy who, about to enter his teen years, find himself challenged by tough life experiences. Among the many remarkable scenes is the famous meeting with Miss Havisham, surrounded by the mementos of her wedding day many years before. It remains one of Dickens’ most popular novels.
Author: Dickens, Charles
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Naxos AudioBooks, 2016
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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Great Expectations [electronic resource]

In this, perhaps Dickens’ most profound and personal novel, we are invited to share in the sentimental education of Pip, the poor boy from the village forge who risks losing himself in snobbery and selfishness when he mysteriously inherits a fortune. The story moves from the bleak Kentish marshes of Pip’s childhood to a thrilling climax which mingles tragedy and triumph.
Author: Dickens, Charles
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Naxos AudioBooks, 2016
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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Classic Ghost Stories [electronic resource]

Stephen Critchlow, a characterful actor, is a collector of ghost stories and relishes putting across those slightly odd moments when things don’t just seem to follow the normal process. Charles Dickens was chilling enough in his novels – one only has to remember the entry of Magwitch in Great Expectations! – but as a writer set deeply in the Victorian era and unashamedly a lover of the melodramatic, it comes as no surprise that one of the greatest classics of the genre was The Signalman. As a medieval scholar of a later period (1862–1936) M. R. James had a very different temperament but produced a string of classic ghost stories, of which The Mezzotint is one of the best known.
Author: Dickens, Charles
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Naxos AudioBooks, 2016
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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Great Expectations [electronic resource]

"Great Expectations" is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. "Great Expectations" is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, "the hulks," barriers and chains, and fights to the death. It therefore combines intrigue and unexpected twists of autobiographical detail in different tones. Regardless of its narrative technique, the novel reflects the events of the time, Dickens' concerns, and the relationship between society and man.
Author: Dickens, Charles
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Otbebookpublishing, 2015
1 online resource (1 text file)
Classics To Go

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Who was Charles Dickens? / Pamela D. Pollack, Meg Belviso.

As a child, Charles Dickens worked in a shoe polish factory where his gritty surroundings inspired some of the most memorable characters and settings in literary history. Known for his masterful storytelling in books like 'Oliver Twist', 'Great Expectations', and 'A Christmas Carol', Dickens toured the globe as one of the most famous people of his era. Widely considered the greatest writer of the Victorian age, Dickens's literary masterpieces continue to amuse and inspire writers and readers alike.
Author: Pollack, Pam
Published: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 2015.
112 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

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Great Expectations [electronic resource]

Pip is an orphan, brought up in a village on the Essex marshes by his sister and her husband Joe Gargery, the kind-hearted village blacksmith. Life is harsh until Pip receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge. But his expectations are fraught with difficulties as he passes from childhood to adulthood and discovers his true self.
Author: Dickens, Charles
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2014
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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Great expectations [videorecording] / producer, David Faigenblum; producer, Elizabeth Karlsen; producer, Emanuel Michael; producer, Stephen Woolley.

Director Mike Newell's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Young orphan Pip (Toby Irvine) finds his life changed forever soon after encountering and lending assistance to escaped convict Magwitch (Ralph Fiennes) on the marshlands near his home. Later, after being summoned to attend the stately home of Miss Havisham (Helena Bonham Carter) and finding himself mesmerised by the old lady's beautiful but cold-hearted niece, Estella (Helena Barlow/Holliday Grainger), Pip learns that he has been granted an inheritance by a mysterious benefactor. After moving to London to be educated as a gentleman under the guardianship of lawyer Mr. Jaggers (Robbie Coltrane), a now adult Pip (Jeremy Irvine), believing he now has the necessary social standing, sets about convincing Estella that he is worthy of her love.
Published: Lionsgate UK, 2013.
1 videodisc (129 min.) : col.

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Great expectations / Charles Dickens.

Pip's sister makes it clear that her orphaned brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change for Pip. An anonymous person gives him money. Are these events as random as they seem? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected?
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Large Print, 2013.
768 pages (large print)
2 reserves

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Charles Dickens [videorecording]

Biographical documentary about celebrated 19th century author Charles Dickens. The programme takes a look back at the life of the man who wrote such classics as 'Oliver Twist', 'Great Expectations' and 'A Christmas Carol'.
Published: Delta Home Entertainment, 2012.
1 videodisc (59 min.) : col.

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Great expectations / Charles Dickens.

Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; illustrated by Penko Gelev ; retold by Jacqueline Morley.

Charles Dickens novel of an orphan bettering himself, told as a graphic novel.
Author: Dickens, Charles
First.
Published: Book House, 2011.
48 p. : 259 x171 mm. 176 gm.
Graffex

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Great expectations [sound recording] / Charles Dickens.

The kind-hearted village blacksmith, Pip, receives from an anonymous benefactor the chance of escaping the forge. Pip's expectations are fraught with difficulties as he passes from childhood to adulthood and discovers his true self.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2011.
15 sound discs (19 hr., 15 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

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Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist and other tales that will make you ask for more! / Valerie Wilding ; illustrated by Michael Tickner.

This work contains the top ten stories by Charles Dickens - told in exciting and innovative ways. Read Pip's diary from Great Expectations and the ghosts from A Christmas Carol tell us how mean Scrooge really is.
Author: Wilding, Valerie
Published: London : Scholastic, 2011.
240 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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Charles Dickens : hard times and great expectations / Alan Taylor.

The titles in the 'Inspirations Series' includes themes from the worlds of sports, ideas, arts, politics, history, science, popular culture and even world faiths and philosophies.
Author: Taylor, Alan
Published: Glendaruel : Argyll, 2011.
128 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Inspirations series

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Great Expectations [electronic resource]

Raised by a humble blacksmith, Pip is recruited by the wealthy Miss Havisham to be a companion to her ward, the cold but beautiful Estella. There, Pip learns to despise his rough origins as Estella torments him about his low prospects. When Pip is informed that an unknown benefactor expects to make him his heir, he sets off to London to realize his “great expectations.” But true gentleman stature, he will find, is a matter of character, not fortune.
Author: Dickens, Charles
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2011
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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The Dickens collection [sound recording]

Read by Martin Jarvis, this audio collection contains 'David Copperfield, 'Great Expectations', 'Oliver Twist', 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'A Christmas Carol', and 'Nicholas Nickleby'.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Published: London : CSA Word, 2011.
3 sound discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
CSA Word classic

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Great British Snobs and the Secret Life of the Novel [electronic resource]

British writers were prominent in shaping the new type of storytelling - one which reflected the experiences of ordinary people, with characters in whom readers could find not only an escape, but a deeper understanding of their own lives.But the novel was more than just a reflection of British life. As Sebastian Faulks explains in this engaging literary and social history, it also helped invent the British. By focusing not on writers but on the people they gave us, Faulks not only celebrates the recently neglected act of novelistic creation but shows how the most enduring fictional characters over the centuries have helped map the British psyche. In this ebook, Sebastian celebrates the greatest snobs in fiction - from Emma Woodhouse to James Bond.Also included are three classic novels:Emma by Jane Austen: Emma is rich, independent and preoccupied with arranging suitors for her acquaintances. Her plans for the matrimonial success of a new friend, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder.The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith: Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man, unfortunately, nobody seems to recognise his gentility. George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel, perfectly illustrated, is a glorious, affectionate caricature of the English middle-class at the end of nineteenth century.
Author: Faulks, Sebastian
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : BBC Digital, 2011
1 online resource (1 text file)
Faulks on Fiction

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Great Expectations

Author: Dickens,Charles
Published: HarperCollins Publishers 2010
480

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Great expectations

Author: Dickens,Charles
Published: Pearson Education 2008
128

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Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; illustrated by F.W. Pailthorpe.

One of Dickens's greatest novels, 'Great Expectations' is also one of his most autobiographical stories, as the young protagonist Pip escapes from his troubled childhood experiences to learn for himself the perils of love, the dangers of wealth, and how to sort his friends from his enemies.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Published: London : Vintage, 2008.
[x], 460 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Vintage classics

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Great expectations / Charles Dickens.

An unknown benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. His expectations prove to be unfounded however, and he must return home penniless.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
New ed. / edited by Margaret Cardwell /with an introduction and notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
lvi, 482 p. ; 20 cm.
Oxford world's classics

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What's so special about Dickens? / written by Michael Rosen.

Michael Rosen looks at the life of Charles Dickens, including his early career, his performances, the great social and political upheavals of his time, and an examination of four of his best-known novels, with particular focus on 'Great Expectations'.
Author: Rosen, Michael, 1946-
[New] ed. / illustrated by Sarah Nayler.
Published: London : Walker, 2007.
155 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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