Great Expectations

by Tanika Gupta (Adapter), Charles Dickens

Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water’s edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham’s house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him move to Calcutta, the heart of the British Raj, Pip pursues his great expectations and his dream of winning Estella’s heart. Relocating Pip’s extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens’ most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens’ language – a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece.

139 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 31, 2012

Reviews

[Chuck Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful adaptation of Dickens’ work. Gupta’s remediation provides understanding to colonialism and racism.