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From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter.
Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet by superstar type designer Jessica Hische, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility.
A collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series design encompasses foil-stamped paper-over-board cases in a rainbow-hued spectrum across all twenty-six book spines and a decorative stain on all three paper edges.
Penguin Drop Caps debuts with an -A- for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a -B- for Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and a -C- for Willa Cather's My Antonia, and continues with more classics from Penguin.
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
- Publication Date:12/12/2012
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- ISBN:9780143123798
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:592 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
- Publication Date:12/12/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780143123798