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Great Expectations Trade paperback - 1998

by Dickens, Charles, and Cardwell, Margaret (Editor), and Flint, Kate (Introduction by)

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Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, USA, 1998. Trade paperback. Good. Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD) by Charles Dickens With a new introduction and notes, this edition of Great Expectations offers new insights into one of Dickens's most fascinating and disturbing novels.... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Oxford World's Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics) (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD) by Charles Dickens With a new introduction and notes, this edition of Great Expectations offers new insights into one of Dickens's most fascinating and disturbing novels. Charting the progress of Pip from childhood to adulthood, Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. As Pip moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering many extraordinary characters--from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, a woman locked up with her past--he is confronted with the challenge of establishing a sense of his own identity and values contrary to the plans others have for him.
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  • Title Great Expectations
  • Author Dickens, Charles, and Cardwell, Margaret (Editor), and Flint, Kate (Introduction by)
  • Binding Trade paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Alibris.0035676
  • ISBN 9780192833594 / 0192833596
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.1 x 7.6 x 1.1 in (12.95 x 19.30 x 2.79 cm)
  • Reading level 1200
  • Library of Congress subjects England, Bildungsromans
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About this book

Great Expectations is a classic novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1861. It tells the story of Pip, a young orphan boy brought up by his abusive sister and her blacksmith husband in rural England. Pip dreams of becoming a gentleman and escaping poverty, but his life takes a dramatic turn when he receives a large fortune from an anonymous benefactor. As he rises in society, he becomes involved with a host of colorful characters, including the eccentric Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella, and learns valuable lessons about love, loyalty, and the true meaning of happiness. The novel is considered one of Dickens' greatest works and a masterpiece of English literature.

Summary

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers thetrue nature of his 'great expectations'.

First line

MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

First Edition Identification

Great Expectations by Dickens was first published on 6 July 1861 in London by Chapman and Hall. It is considered not only the rarest and most valuable of Dickens's works, but arguably his greatest. Copies in the original cloth are particularly desirable.

Published in 3 volumes, the first edition of Great Expectations has the original publisher’s violet wavy-grain cloth binding with floral decoration in blind on covers and spines lettered in gilt.

Five impressions of the first edition were printed, each of the latter four with a new edition statement on the title page.

The first edition first issue of Great Expectations’ rarity has been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with the first title page, coupled with the fact that the first edition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.


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