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Great Expectations (Pocket Classics, C-52)
Great Expectations - Pocket Classics, C-52 Author:Charles Dickens, Stella Alico (Adaptor), Angel Trinidad (lllustrator) Pocket Classics are not "comic books"...they are small "paperback" books (61 pages). They are illustrated retellings of classic stories in B&W comic book type artwork. They all use the interior B&W artwork from the 1970's Pendulum Classics series in a slightly smaller format. — Adapted by: St... more »ella Alico Illustrated by: Angel Trinidad
In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich and "become a gentleman." Finally, in the luminous mists of the village at evening, Pip the man meets Estella, his dazzlingly beautiful tormentor, in a ruined garden--and lays to rest all the heartaches and illusions that his "great expectations" have brought upon him.« less