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Great Expectations

Introduction by Michael Slater

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Bernard Shaw

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Bernard Shaw

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater

By Charles Dickens
Introduction by Michael Slater

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens

By Charles Dickens
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By Charles Dickens
Read by John Lee

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Feb 13, 2001 | ISBN 9780375757013

Mass Market Paperback $5.95

Aug 01, 1982 | ISBN 9780553213423

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Mar 10, 1992 | ISBN 9780679405795

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Jan 17, 2012 | ISBN 9780307950543

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Jun 03, 2003 | ISBN 9780553897623

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    About Great Expectations

    Introduction by George Bernard Shaw • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. “Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.”
     
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    About Great Expectations

    Introduction by John Irving • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. “Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.”

    About Great Expectations

    One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman.

    From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide.

    Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.

    This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.


    About Great Expectations

    Introduction by George Bernard Shaw • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. “Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.”
     
    INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDE

    About Great Expectations

    Introduction by John Irving • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

    Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. “Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.”

    About Great Expectations

    Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. “Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.”

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    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    About Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. When the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to… More about Charles Dickens

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $11.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Feb 13, 2001 | 480 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757013

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Aug 01, 1982 | 560 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553213423

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $30.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Mar 10, 1992 | 544 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780679405795

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 17, 2012 | 480 Pages | ISBN 9780307950543

    Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Jun 03, 2003 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9780553897623

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $15.00
    Published by Listening Library
    Dec 21, 2010 | 1113 Minutes | ISBN 9780307916044

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