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Great expectations (1st Random House Bullseye Books Edition)

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)One of Charles Dickenss 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 Pips first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havishams 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 novelists bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.

This edition includes Dickenss original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G.

K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.

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Random House
0307758370 / 9780307758378
eBook (EPUB)
[Fic]
31/08/2011
English
Classics
112 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 200122, Points 35.00, Book Level 9.20,
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