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Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Great ExpectationsGreat Expectations includes some of Dickens's most memorable characters - Magwitch, Miss Havisham, Estella - encountered by young Pip as he grows into adulthood. This edition features a wide-ranging introduction, Dickens's working notes, the original ending and the definitive Clarendon text.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 12 June 2008
- Format: Paperback 544 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780199219766 ISBN 10: 0199219761
- Sales rank: 7,668
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Full description for Great Expectations
'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' 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.
