One of Sir Trevor McDonald's favourite books.
This definitive edition uses the text from the first published edition of 1861. It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens’s original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.
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Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Pip doesn't expect much from life ... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in London.Are these events as random as they seem? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected?
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Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Pip doesn't expect much from life ...
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Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Great Expectations has 576 pages
