Franklin Library: CHARLES DICKENS: GREAT EXPECTATIONS: OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," With twenty-one Illustrations by F.W. Pailthorpe, Introduction by Frederick Page, Engraving of Dickens by Yves Beaujard, a Limited edition, one of the OXFORD LIBRARY OF CHARLES DICKENS series, published in 1982. Bound in red leather with navy blue insert on front board, the book has scarlet red moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Charles Dickens, who lived from 1812-1870, was born near PORTSMOUTH, England but his family moved to LONDON when he was two years old. "Great Expectations" was originally published in 1860 and is the story of Philip Pirrip, commonly known as "Pip," a village boy brought up by his termagant sister, the wife of the gentle, humorous, kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery. He is introduced to the house of MISS HAVISHAM, a lady half-crazed by the desertion of her lover on her bridal night, who, in a spirit of revenge, has brought up the girl ESTELLA to use her beauty as a means of torturing men. Pip falls in love with Estella, and aspires to become a gentleman. Money and expectations of more wealth come to him from a mysterious source, which he believes to be Miss Havisham. Pip goes to London, and in his new mode of life meanly abandons the devoted Joe Gargery. His unknown benefactor proves to be an escaped convict, ABEL MAGWITCH, to whom he as a boy had rendered a service. . .483 pages---a FINE book. I offer combined shipping.

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