书名：Great Expectations远大前程

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数790L-1150L
作者：Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
出版社名称：Penguin Classic
出版时间：2012
语种：英语
ISBN：9780141198897
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.7 x 19.7 cm
包装：平装
页数：540（以实物为准）

Great Expectations《远大前程》（孤星血泪）是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯于1860年到1861年创作的长篇小说，问世百余年来经久不衰，被多次改编成电影、电视剧及舞台剧，深受不同时代的读者喜爱，埃德加·约翰逊曾高度赞扬这部小说，认为《远大前程》在“狄更斯所有作品中结构和语言都堪称是完美的。
本书为企鹅经典所推出的Penguin English Library英文原版，由George Woodcock主编，内容精准完整无删减。

The Penguin English Library—100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Great Expectations《远大前程》，又译《孤星血泪》，是狄更斯晚年写成的小说，入选BBC评选的“有史以来伟大的100部小说”。故事背景为1812年圣诞节前夕至1840年冬天，主角孤儿皮普（Pip）以自传式手法，叙述从7岁开始的三个人生阶段。小说贯彻了狄更斯文以载道的风格，透过剧中孤儿的跌宕起落，表达他对生命和人性的看法。作品百年来被多次改编成电影、电视剧及舞台剧。

Great Expectations, Dickens’s funny, frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip’s journey of self-discovery, is one of his best-loved works. Showing how a young man’s life is transformed by a mysterious series of events—an encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; a fortune from a secret donor—Dickens’s late novel is a masterpiece of psychological and moral truth, and Pip among his greatest creations.

查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens，1812～1870），1812年生于英国的朴次茅斯。15岁时，狄更斯在一家律师事务所当抄写员并学习速记，此后，又在报社任新闻记者。在《记事晨报》任记者时，狄更斯开始发表一些具有讽刺和幽默内容的短剧，主要反映伦敦的生活，逐渐有了名气。他了解城市底层人民的生活和风土人情，这些都体现在他热情洋溢的笔端。此后，他在不同的杂志社任编辑、主编和发行人，其间发表了几十部长篇和短篇小说，主要作品有The Pickwick Papers《匹克威克外传》、Oliver Twist《雾都孤儿》、The Old Curiosity Shop《老古玩店》、Hard Times《艰难时世》、Our Mutual Friend《我们共同的朋友》、A Tale of Two Cities《双城记》等。

Charles Dickens (1812-70) had his first, astounding success with his first novel The Pickwick Papers and never looked back. In an extraordinarily full life he wrote, campaigned and spoke on a huge range of issues, and was involved in many of the key aspects of Victorian life, by turns cajoling, moving and irritating. He completed fourteen full-length novels and volume after volume of journalism. His thirteenth novel, A Tale of Two Cities is one of his most famous works.

The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood are also published in the Penguin English Library.