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Title:

Great expectations

Author:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

ISBN:

9780141439563

Personal Author:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Publication Information:

London : Penguin, 2003.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 514 p. : map ; 20 cm.

Series:

Penguin classics

Series Title:

Penguin classics

General Note:

"Reprinted with updated further reading, revised Dickens Chronology and new appendix 2003."

Previously published: 1996.

Contents:

Introduction -- Dickens chronology -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- Map: Kent in the early nineteenth century -- Great expectations: Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- Notes -- Ending as originally conceived -- Dickens's working notes -- Running heads added in 1867-8.

Abstract:

Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.

Subject Term:

Young men -- England -- Fiction.

Orphans -- Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Pirrip, Philip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

London, England -- Fiction.

Added Author:

Mitchell, Charlotte.

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A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens's haunting late novel depicts Pip's education and development through adversity as he discovers thetrue nature of his 'great expectations'.