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Great Expectations

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Author(s):Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):Edward Ardizzone
Publisher(s): The Heritage Club
Year Published: 1939
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Boys Growing Up
British
Families
Fiction - Novel
Orphans
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 457
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 425471

Description

Young Pip finds he has a patron - but who?

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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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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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Publisher: The Macmillan Co.
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