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Great Expectations

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241256602

  • Length: 576  Pages

  • Dimensions: 240mm x 38mm x 162mm

  • Weight: 976g

  • RRP: £20.00

Great Expectations

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?

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241256602

  • Length: 576  Pages

  • Dimensions: 240mm x 38mm x 162mm

  • Weight: 976g

  • RRP: £20.00

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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport in Portsmouth. His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office who often ended up in financial trouble. When Dickens was twelve years' old he was sent to work in a shoe polish factory because his father had been imprisoned for debt.In 1833 he began to publish short stories and essays in newspapers and magazines. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836, the same year that he married Catherine Hogarth. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. Many other novels followed and Dickens became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. He also set up and edited the journals Household Words (1850-9) and All the Year Round (1859-70). Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870 leaving his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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