Mister Pip
- ISBN-10
- 0385341075
- ISBN-13
- 9780385341073
- Series
- Mister Pip
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Dial Press Trade Paperback
- Author
- Lloyd Jones
Description
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, on which survival is daily struggle, eccentric Mr. Watts, the only white man left after the other teachers flee, spends his day reading to the local children from Charles Dickens's classic Great Expectations, capturing the imaginations of thirteen-year-old Matilda and her peers with the London adventures of a young orphan named Pip. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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