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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
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Great Expectations Paperback - 2013

by Dickens, Charles

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Nick Hern Books, 2013-02-26. Reprint. paperback. New. 5.00x0.25x7.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.
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  • Title Great Expectations
  • Author Dickens, Charles
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Nick Hern Books
  • Publication date 2013-02-26
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX1848420676
  • ISBN 9781848420670 / 1848420676
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.75 x 5 x 0.4 in (19.69 x 12.70 x 1.02 cm)
  • Size 5.00x0.25x7.50
  • Reading level 1200
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822
  • Quantity available 6

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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.

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From the publisher

Using the novel's own words as its starting point, Clifford's adaptation thrillingly recreates Dicken's classic story of love and mystery while losing none of the original's haunting power. Pip longs to be a gentleman, but he is haunted by the memory of the mysterious Magwitch, and his love for the bewitching Estella seems to be just another dream.

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.


About the author

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. Many of his novels have been famously adapted for the stage and screen, including Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.

JO CLIFFORD is Professor of Theatre and Bill Findlay Fellow of Stage Translation at Queen Margaret's University College Edinburgh, and Associate Playwright of the Playwrights' Studio, Scotland. Her plays, including the original works Every One, Losing Venice, Light in the Village and The Tree of Knowledge, and adaptations of Faust, Celestina, Blood Wedding, Yerma, Life is a Dream and The House of Bernarda Alba are all published by NHB. Jo lives in Edinburgh.

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