Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
illustrated by F. W. Pailthorpe
This hardcover (no dust jacket) is a former library book and is in very good condition with minimal shelf wear. There is no writing or highlighting other than the typical library markings and labels on the front free end page and upper page edges. The ribbon bookmark is still intact.
469 pages, 1992 edition, ISBN 0679405798, Everyman's Library by Alfred Knopf Publishers
Synopsis
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. But it is also, perhaps because it was written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, distinguished by a bittersweet understanding on the part of its author of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemnas are born of our own obsessionns and illusions.
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