Great Expectations [with] Christmas Stories

188, [4], 293 pp. Great Expectations and Christmas Stories bound together in one volume, with engraved illustrations by F.A. Fraser and E.A. Abbey. Charles Dickens's Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip's life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance. A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble station as an apprentice to blacksmith Joe Gargery, beginning a new life as a gentleman. Charles Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his identity, and his 'great expectations'. Dickens's Christmas Stories include his much-adapted A Christmas Carol, as well as: The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man; Somebody's Luggage; Mrs. Lirriper Lodgings; Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy; Doctor Marigold; Two Ghost Stories; The Boy at Mugby; The Seven Poor Travelers; The Holly-tree; Going into Society.