Great Expectations
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles Dickens chronicles the life of Pip, a poor orphan boy raised on the bleak Kent marshes, whose world is irrevocably shattered by a chance encounter with an escaped convict and a capricious, reclusive aristocrat named Miss Havisham — an encounter that sets him on a collision course with wealth, shame, and a desperate, unrequited love for the cold and beautiful Estella. As mysterious funds catapult Pip into the genteel society of Victorian London, he must confront the corrupting allure of money and the cruel fiction of social class. A towering masterpiece of Victorian literature, Great Expectations stands as one of Dickens's most psychologically rich and structurally accomplished novels, presenting a searing critique of social ambition and moral hypocrisy that remains startlingly relevant. Dickens weaves together dark comedy, Gothic atmosphere, and profound pathos with a storytelling command that few authors have ever matched, populating Pip's world with some of the most indelible characters in the literary canon — from the fearsome Magwitch to the tragically frozen Miss Havisham. This edition, introduced by Kenneth Mavers and published by Collins of London and Glasgow, presents Dickens's immortal text with scholarly care, inviting the reader to ask the most unsettling question at the novel's heart: can a person ever truly escape the person they were born to be?
Author: Charles Dickens
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles Dickens chronicles the life of Pip, a poor orphan boy raised on the bleak Kent marshes, whose world is irrevocably shattered by a chance encounter with an escaped convict and a capricious, reclusive aristocrat named Miss Havisham — an encounter that sets him on a collision course with wealth, shame, and a desperate, unrequited love for the cold and beautiful Estella. As mysterious funds catapult Pip into the genteel society of Victorian London, he must confront the corrupting allure of money and the cruel fiction of social class. A towering masterpiece of Victorian literature, Great Expectations stands as one of Dickens's most psychologically rich and structurally accomplished novels, presenting a searing critique of social ambition and moral hypocrisy that remains startlingly relevant. Dickens weaves together dark comedy, Gothic atmosphere, and profound pathos with a storytelling command that few authors have ever matched, populating Pip's world with some of the most indelible characters in the literary canon — from the fearsome Magwitch to the tragically frozen Miss Havisham. This edition, introduced by Kenneth Mavers and published by Collins of London and Glasgow, presents Dickens's immortal text with scholarly care, inviting the reader to ask the most unsettling question at the novel's heart: can a person ever truly escape the person they were born to be?