Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens ; edited by Margaret Cardwell.
Contributors: Cardwell, Margaret.
Series: The Clarendon Dickens
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford, England & New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 516
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.; Ex-convicts -- Fiction.; Benefactors -- Fiction.; Young men -- Fiction.; Revenge -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A tiny orphan boy named Pip acquires a mysterious benefactor who sponsors him to become a gentleman. Years later, Pip confronts his past heartaches and illusions that his "great expectations" have brought upon him.