Binding: Hardcover
Description: Complete and unabridged this elegantly designed hardcover edition of Great Expectations features vibrant endpapers an introduction by Grace Moore and a timeline of the life and times of Charles Dickens. Set in Victorian London Great Expectations is the cautionary tale of a young man raised high above his station by a mysterious benefactor. Its remarkable characters and compelling story about wealth and poverty crime and social anxiety and the bitterness of unrequited love are as relevant today as when the novel was first serialized in 1860 1861. Charles Dickens's tale begins with young orphaned Philip Pirrip Pip running afoul of an escaped convict in a cemetery. This terrifying personage bullies Pip into stealing food and a file to remove his ankle shackle. The boy does as he's asked but the convict is captured anyway and transported to the penal colonies in Australia. Having started his novel in a cemetery Dickens then ups the stakes and introduces his hero into the decaying household of Miss Havisham a wealthy reclusive half - mad woman who had been left at the altar many years ago but was still clad in her wedding gown now faded and yellow. Pip is brought there to play with Miss Havisham's ward Estella a cruel and beautiful little girl who delights in tormenting Pip about his coarse hands and future as a blacksmith's apprentice. This arrangement sets the pair on a course that will forever change their lives. Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs. Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; The Essential Tales of H. P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Inferno; The Call of the Wild and White Fang; Moby Dick; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; Grimm's Fairy Tales; Emma; The Great Gatsby; The Secret Garden; Anne of Green Gables; The Phantom of the Opera; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; The Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking - Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women; Wuthering Heights; Peter Pan; Persuasion; Aesop's Fables; The Constitution of the United States and Selected Writings; Crime and Punishment; Dracula; The Alchemist; The Iliad; Irish and Fairy Folk Tales; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The War of the Worlds; and The Time Machine and The Invisible Man.
Title: Great Expectations
Author(s): Dickens Charles
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780785841708
Pages: 512 Pages
Publication Date: 10/11/2022
Series: Chartwell Classics
Category: Classic Fiction