Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...'Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella - and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart.A powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other's lives. This edition includes a lively introduction, Dickens's working notes, the novel's original ending, and an extract from an early theatrical adaptation. It reprints the definitive Clarendon text.

Edited by Margaret Cardwell and Introduction and Notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst . Margaret Cardwell was formerly Reader in English at Queen's College, Belfast. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford University.

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ISBN 13	9780199219766
ISBN 10	0199219761
Title	Great Expectations
Author	Charles Dickens
Series	Oxford World's Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2008-06-12
Number of pages	544
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