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Great Expectations

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Author(s):Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):Ronald Searle
Editor(s):Doris Dickens
Publisher(s): Michael Joseph
Year Published: 1962
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Fiction - Novel
Girls Growing Up
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 366
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 11378801

Description

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

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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 (1939)

Young Pip finds he has a patron - but who?

Publisher: The Heritage Club
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Great Expectations (1979)

Young Pip has a patron -- but who? This edition includes Dickens’ original ending where Pip and Estella are not reconciled.

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
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