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Great Expectations : Introduction by Michael Slater Hardcover - 1992
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
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- Title Great Expectations : Introduction by Michael Slater
- Author Dickens, Charles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1992-03-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP84247958
- ISBN 9780679405795 / 0679405798
- Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.28 x 1.37 in (21.08 x 13.41 x 3.48 cm)
- Reading level 1200
- Library of Congress subjects England, Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91053219
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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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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