Great Expectations
Contributors: Margaret Cardwell (Editor)
Edition: New Edition (1)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780199219766
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Classic fiction; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction / Literary; Classics; Literary; Benefactors; Ex-convicts; Man-woman relationships
Description: 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.