Great Expectations Mass market paperbound - 1982
by Charles Dickens
"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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In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich and "become a gentleman." Finally, in the luminous mists of the village at evening, Pip the man meets Estella, his dazzingly beautiful tormentor, in a ruined garden--and lays to rest all the heartaches and illusions that his "great expectations" have brought upon him. Dickens's biographer, Edgar H. Johnson, has said that--except for the author's last-minute tampering with his original ending--"Great Expectations is "the most perfectly constructed and perfectly written of all Dickens's works." In John Irving's Introduction to this edition, the novelist takes the view that Dickens's revised ending is "far more that mirror of the quality of trust in the novel as a whole." Both versions of the ending are printed here.
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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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- Title Great Expectations
- Author Charles Dickens
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam Classics, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1982-08-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780553213423 / 0553213423
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 6.84 x 4.26 x 0.95 in (17.37 x 10.82 x 2.41 cm)
- Reading level 1200
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Topical: Home School
- Library of Congress subjects Young men - England, England - Social life and customs - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00003699
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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