Great
Expectations
 by
Charles Dickens
 
 
This 457 page book is in Very Good condition. No writing, torn, folded or missing pages.  Spine and cover boards are clean and straight, corners are sharp, binding is tight. Light smudges and soil on edges, minor shelf wear on bottom of cover boards and spine. Dust jacket shows slight shelf, rub, and reading wear. Small tear on back top corner.
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 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. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.

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