Great Expectations
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few novels in the English literary canon have captured the turbulent journey from poverty to privilege — and back again — with such piercing moral clarity as Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Set against the fog-shrouded marshes of Kent and the teeming, gaslit streets of Victorian London, the novel chronicles the life of Pip, an orphaned boy of humble origins whose chance encounter with an escaped convict and a visit to the decaying mansion of the eccentric Miss Havisham set him upon an extraordinary and ultimately humbling path. Fuelled by secret wealth, social ambition, and an aching love for the beautiful but cold Estella, Pip's ascent into London's gentleman class uncovers the hollow promises at the heart of the Victorian dream. Dickens crafts his narrative with a surgeon's precision and a poet's heart, wielding biting social satire to dismantle the class-obsessed society of 19th-century England whilst simultaneously delivering one of literature's most tender bildungsromans. The Franklin Library edition, illustrated with the celebrated artwork of F. W. Pailthorpe, presents this masterwork in a form befitting its stature — a collector's treasure that honours both the text and its visual heritage. As Pip himself must learn, the truest measure of a gentleman is not found in wealth or status, but in loyalty, conscience, and the courage to recognise one's own moral failings. One cannot help but wonder: if Pip had known the true source of his fortune from the very beginning, would he have made the same choices?
Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few novels in the English literary canon have captured the turbulent journey from poverty to privilege — and back again — with such piercing moral clarity as Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Set against the fog-shrouded marshes of Kent and the teeming, gaslit streets of Victorian London, the novel chronicles the life of Pip, an orphaned boy of humble origins whose chance encounter with an escaped convict and a visit to the decaying mansion of the eccentric Miss Havisham set him upon an extraordinary and ultimately humbling path. Fuelled by secret wealth, social ambition, and an aching love for the beautiful but cold Estella, Pip's ascent into London's gentleman class uncovers the hollow promises at the heart of the Victorian dream. Dickens crafts his narrative with a surgeon's precision and a poet's heart, wielding biting social satire to dismantle the class-obsessed society of 19th-century England whilst simultaneously delivering one of literature's most tender bildungsromans. The Franklin Library edition, illustrated with the celebrated artwork of F. W. Pailthorpe, presents this masterwork in a form befitting its stature — a collector's treasure that honours both the text and its visual heritage. As Pip himself must learn, the truest measure of a gentleman is not found in wealth or status, but in loyalty, conscience, and the courage to recognise one's own moral failings. One cannot help but wonder: if Pip had known the true source of his fortune from the very beginning, would he have made the same choices?