Great Expectations

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Trident Press International, 1999 - Fiction - 442 pages
This new high-quality, hardcover series of timeless classics features the finest works of world literature.

Six of the greatest and most loved classics of English literature are available in two 6 x 9 formats. The Deluxe version is luxuriously bound and foil stamped. The standard edition has an attractive jacket design.

Here is a collection of enduring fiction. Each title chosen for it's literary quality and for the untold pleasure it will give readers of all ages.

A compelling story, full of remarkable characters, Great Expectations tells the story of a young orphaned man, Pip, raised above his station by a mysterious benefactor.

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About the author (1999)

Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.

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