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9%OFFCharles Dickens - Great Expectations - 9781848420670 - V9781848420670
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Great Expectations

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Description for Great Expectations Paperback. Jo Clifford's beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels brings it thrillingly to life for the stage. Eminently actable and stageable, this version is also ideal for schools and amateur theatre companies. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 116.

A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage.

When the orphan Pip meets the convict Magwitch in a graveyard and is forced to help him escape, his life takes a series of unexpected turns. Invited to the house of the mysterious Miss Havisham, he falls in love with her adopted daughter, the beautiful but cold-hearted Estella. Then the generosity of an unknown benefactor sends him to London to become a gentleman. But the truth behind his change of fortune, once revealed, is not what Pip expects...

Jo Clifford's ... Read more

Eminently actable and stageable, this version is also ideal for schools and amateur theatre companies.

This edition contains introductions by Simon Callow, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley (great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens) and Clifford herself.

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Product Details

Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848420670
SKU
V9781848420670
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Jo Clifford (formerly known as John Clifford) is an award-winning playwright, translator, poet and performer, who has also worked as a journalist and academic. She was instrumental in establishing the reputation of the Traverse Theatre ... Read more

Reviews for Great Expectations
'What is so admirable... is that it decisively shrugs off the many screen adaptations to make something that is pure theatre'
The Times
'A striking piece of theatre... potently evocative'
Telegraph
'Breathtaking... one feels transported back to the Victorian era'
The Stage
'Arresting... the adaptation is a model of its kind'
Whatsonstage.com
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Goodreads reviews for Great Expectations


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