Manga Classics Great Expectations - Crystal S. Chan (Paperback)

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Manga Classics: Great Expectations Softcover.

Product Details

Barcode: 9781927925317

Department: Books

Released: 1 Mar 2015

Supply Source: UK

Book

Authors: Crystal S. Chan (Adapted By)
Charles Dickens
Stacy King (Corporate Author)
Nokman Poon (Contributor)
Stacy King (Contributor)
Nokman Poon (Corporate Author)
Nokman Poon (Illustrator)
Crystal Chan (Contributor)
Charles Dickens (Creator)
Crystal Chan (Editor)

Binding: Paperback

Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors

Series: Manga Classics

Language: English

Number of Pages: 308

Dimensions: 210 x 146mm

Annotation

Presents a graphic adaptation of the classic novel in which a mysterious benefactor enables Pip, a young orphaned boy, to rise in Victorian society, being educated as a gentleman, while snobbishly neglecting his childhood friends.

Summary

This is the story of an English orphan named Pip who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham. Dickens set Great Expectations during the time that England was becoming a wealthy world power. Machines were making factories more productive, yet people lived in awful conditions.

Fiction

General Subject: Graphic Novels

BISAC Subject 1: Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / General

BISAC Subject 2: Comics & Graphic Novels / Manga / Historical Fiction

Dewey Classification: 741

Author Bio

Dickens: - Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.