Great Expectations (Collector's Library) Edition: Reprint - Hardcover

A fine copy of the Collectors Library edition by Barnes & Noble, 2003. Hardcover, in like dust jacket. Red cloth boards, gilt titled on spine, red ribbon, publishers gilt-stain on text block, decorative head and tail bands, gilt on spine rubbed, back upper board lightly cocked, no illustrations. Afterword by D. Pinching. Synopsis. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel; a bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dicken's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. A classic, a must read. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. 4in x 6.25in tall; 628pp,