October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romance—discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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Also by Charles Dickens:

Dickens: Ghost Stories, August 2026
Hardcover
Great Expectations, December 2012
Hardcover (reprint)
Grave Expectations, September 2011
Paperback
A Tale Of Two Cities And Great Expectations, February 2011
Paperback (reprint)
A Christmas Carol, September 2006
Hardcover
A Tale of Two Cities, June 2005
Audio CD
Little Dorrit, February 2004
Paperback
A Christmas Tale, October 2003
Audio CD
A Christmas Carol, November 1986
Paperback (reprint)

Madame Bovary, December 2012
Hardcover (reprint)
Middlemarch, December 2012
Hardcover (reprint)
My Antonia, December 2012
Hardcover (reprint)
Jane Eyre, December 2012
Hardcover
Pride And Prejudice, December 2012
Hardcover (reprint)
Great Expectations, December 2012
Hardcover (reprint)

GREAT EXPECTATIONS
By: Charles Dickens, Jessica Hische

Drop Cap #5
Penguin Classics
December 2012
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Featuring: Pip
592 pages
ISBN: 0143123793
EAN: 9780143123798
Hardcover (reprint)
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Literature and Fiction Classics

D is for Dickens. The orphan Pip is destined to become a blacksmith like his brother-in-law Joe. But when Pip meets the beautiful Estella Havisham, he yearns for a gentleman’s education in order to woo her. A mysterious legacy answers his ambition, and changes the course of his life, taking him far from the Marshes of youth—far, so he thinks, from his early terrifying encounter with an escaped convict, and his sister’s class resentments. In this fictional autobiography, Pip’s coming-of-age story becomes representative of the changing social landscape of nineteenth century England. As Pip’s education provides upward social mobility, he must also learn hard lessons about self-delusion and forgiveness, love and loss, and the true nature of his Great Expectations.