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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens’s irrepressible great novel, the story of Pip, the little boy with great expectations. It comes complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Pip’s life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. Pip’s desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.

This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

Publisher Review

He’s a marvellous writer… He’s very, very good — William Trevor A story of the traumas of sex and class. My favourite moment is the one where Magwitch makes his stumbling way up the shadowy staircase towards an unnerved but unsuspecting Pip: the halting but inexorable rise of the repressed ‘from the darkness beneath — Sarah Waters The defects in [Great Expectations] are as nearly imperceptible as spots on the sun or shadows on a sunlit sea — Algernon Charles Swinburne I would always prefer to go get another Dickens off the shelf than pick up a new book by someone I’ve not read yet… I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive — Donna Tartt