U.S. 9th grade reader with adaptation of "Great Expectations" circa 1965

[Extollager]

I'd love to identify and get hold of a book I seem to remember from my 9th grade school year (1969-1970). It seems to me that it included an abridged version of Dickens's novel: I seem to remember the opening with the boy's frightening meeting with the escaped convict, etc.

The book certainly was a textbook for schools and would have had lots of other stories, and poems. It was a substantial hardcover book with lots of illustrations in color. I have no doubt it was published by a well-known publisher. I've suggested a date of 1965 because I don't remember the book as being very worn, but it wasn't new in 1969-1970. It might have been published in the early 1960s, but no earlier, I should think. I don't remember if it was marked as being the 6th edition or whatever. In fact I've stated here about all I do remember about it....

 

[hitmouse]

Try a Google image search for "Abridged version Great Expectations 1060s" or variants thereof. There are quite a lot. You may recognise the cover.

 

[Extollager]

There are indeed. But those were all books devoted to Dickens's novel. The one I'm searching for might have given 40 pages to the novel out of 500 pages for the reader as a whole. The title and cover probably had no verbal or visual allusion to Great Expectations. I mean, the book might have been called something like Adventures in English with a subtitle like McGinn's Ninth Grade Reader, etc.