Great Expectations - GCSE 9-1 Set Text Student Edition

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCRLevel & Subject: GCSE English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017This edition of Great Expectations is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms. -Hold your noise!- cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. -Keep still, you little devil, or I-ll cut your throat!-So begins Charles Dickens-s 1861 bildungsroman, the story of the orphan Pip who is catapulted from the desolate Kent marshes of his childhood to become a young gentleman in London.Who is Pip-s mysterious benefactor? And what role will the troubling figures of escaped convict Magwitch, decaying bride Miss Havisham and the beautiful but aloof Estella play in his prospects?Told through the first-person voice of the older Pip, this story of great expectations suggests gains always come at a price. Dickens depicts bo