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Great Expectations

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Author(s):Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):Edward Ardizzone
Warwick Goble
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Year Published: circa 1959
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Fiction - Novel
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 520
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
ISBN-10: 0192501283
ISBN-13: 9780192501288
OCLC: 630817426

Description

Young Pip acquires a patron and soon rises above his family. This is the World’s Classics edition with dust jacket by Ardizzone #128.

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Other Editions

Great Expectations (1861)

Young Pip has a patron -- but who? This first edition of Great Expectations was published in three volumes without illustrations. Read online at archive.org:

Publisher: Chapman and Hall
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Great Expectations (1875)

This was the first illustrated edition of the story of Pip and his patron. Read online at Hathitrust.

Publisher: Chapman and Hall
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Great Expectations (1962)

This edition has been slightly shortened to concentrate on the story of Pip and his relationship to his great patron.

Publisher: Michael Joseph
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