Great Expectations : The First Edition, 1861 - Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

The First Edition, 1861

By: Charles Dickens

Paperback | 11 October 2011

At a Glance

Paperback


$69.32

or 4 interest-free payments of $17.33 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days

The novels of Charles Dickens (1812 70), with their inimitable energy and their comic, tragic and grotesque characters, are still widely read, and reworked for film and television. The first book edition of Great Expectations was published in three volumes in 1861. It is now reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection simultaneously with the serialised version, published in Dickens' periodical All the Year Round in 1860 1, and a volume of newly photographed actual-size colour images of the entire original manuscript. Dickens himself had the manuscript bound and presented to his friend Chauncy Hare Townshend, with whom he shared an interest in mesmerism and the occult, and in 1868 Townshend bequeathed his library (including the manuscript) to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum. Dickens scholars and enthusiasts will now be able easily to study this three-volume book edition alongside the serial and the work-in-progress, with all its deletions and revisions."

Other Editions and Formats

Hardcover

Published: 5th August 1993

Hardcover

Published: 1st October 2009

Hardcover

Published: 12th December 2012

More in Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900

Pride and Prejudice : Oxford World's Classics - Jane Austen

RRP $14.95

$11.90

20%
OFF
Frankenstein or 'The Modern Prometheus' : The 1818 Text - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition - Alan G. Smith

RRP $59.99

$49.25

18%
OFF
Romance in the Time of Modernism : A Literature of Silence - Alberto Castelli
The Human Family : Stories - Lou Andreas-Salome

RRP $48.95

$46.50