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This book is based on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
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Description edit
This is an abridged adaption of the original.
The orphaned Pip is serving as a blackmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
First Sentence edit
Though I lived most of my early years here in Kent, its marshes can still frighten me.
Table of Contents edit
1. Meeting by a Grave
2. The Second Convict
3. Capture and Confession
4. Miss Havisham's Invitation
5. My First Kiss
6. Depressed and Ashamed!
7. Great Expectations
8. My New Life
9. A Visitor from Home
10. Estella
11. My Benefactor Is Revealed
12. Helping Abel Magwitch
13. A Murderess!
14. Fire!
15. Secrets from the Past
16. Rowing Toward Freedom
17. Magwitch's "Dear Boy"
18. Many Changes
19. Eleven Years Later
Series & Lists edit
This is book 21 of 72 in Great Illustrated Classics. (publisher series)
Preceded by Frankenstein (Great Illustrated Classics), and followed by Grimm's Fairy Tales (Great Illustrated Classics).
This is book 21 of 72 in Great Illustrated Classics. (standard series)
Preceded by Frankenstein (Great Illustrated Classics), and followed by Grimm's Fairy Tales (Great Illustrated Classics).
Authors & Contributors edit
- Charles Dickens (Creator)
Other Contributors:
- Mitsu Yamamoto (Adapter)
- Brendan Lynch (Illustrator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Acclaim Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 1578400112
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Acclaim Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 1578400112
Page Count: 240
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 741.5973
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