Great expectations
By: Charles Dickens ; edited with notes by Margaret Cardwell ; with an introduction by Kate Flint
Contributors: Cardwell, Margaret
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780585361680
Subjects: Inheritance and succession; Fiction; Young men; Successions et héritages; Romans, nouvelles; Jeunes hommes; FICTION; Coming of Age
Description: With a new introduction and notes, this edition of Great Expectations offers new insights into one of Dickens's most fascinating and disturbing novels. Charting the progress of Pip from childhood to adulthood, Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. As Pip moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering many extraordinary characters--from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, a woman locked up with her past--he is confronted with the challenge of establishing a sense of his own identity and values contrary to the plans others have for him.
Notes: Originally published as a World's classics paperback: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references.