Great Expectations
Contributors: Margaret Cardwell (Editor); Kate Flint (Introduction)
Edition: Reissued Oxford World's Classics paperback (7)
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9780192833594
Copyright date: 1994
First sentence: MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
Description: Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.

Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Fxpectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.

This edition includes the original, discarded ending, Dickens's brief working notes, and the serial instalments and chapter divisions in different editions. It also uses the definitive Clarendon text.