GREAT EXPECTATIONS (CHILTERN CLASSICS) (HB)

Blending the best of tradition and the latest printing techniques, Chiltern Classics feature detailed, layered and embossed covers; cream pages and gilt edges; ribbon markers, rounded edges and stitched binding. No edition will be more pleasurable to give, own or read. Seven-year-old Philip Pirrip, known as to all as Pip, is being brought up by hand in the marsh country of Kent, by his disagreeable sister and her amiable husband. His encounter with the escaped convict Magwitch, in a graveyard on Christmas Eve, sets off a train of events which will shape Pip’s life in ways he cannot imagine.