Great Expectations: No. 4 (Pocket Classics) - Hardcover

A beautiful hardback for the price of a paperback. White's Pocket Classics offer the best-loved classics in an irresistible small hardback with original illustrations embossed on the covers and all the features of a fine edition – coloured endpapers, marker ribbon, illustrated title pages and new typesetting – combining the best contemporary design with the luxury of a hardback and introductions by today’s popular authors, to make the most appealing classics available at a paperback price and a perfect gift. Great Expectations was published in 1860-61 and its story of admirable ambition overcoming social limitations has made it Dickens' most popular novel.

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth and lived until 1870. The Christmas Books were first published in a single volume in 1852, bringing together five stories which Charles Dickens wrote specially for the Christmas season, beginning in 1843 with A Christmas Carol. Over the next three years Dickens published The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth and The Battle of Life. There was no story in 1847 but a fifth, The Haunted Man, appeared in 1848.