Great expectations
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; edited by Margaret Cardwell ; with an introduction and notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. - New ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - lvi, 482 p. ; 20 cm. - Oxford world's classics .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xl-xliii).
Introduction -- Note on the text -- A chronology of Charles Dickens -- Great expectations -- Appendix A: The original ending -- Appendix B: Dickens's working notes -- Appendix C: All the year round instalments and chapter-numbering in different editions -- Appendix D: The 1861 theatrical adaptation -- Explanatory notes.
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.
9780199219766 0199219761
2007051451
GBA847439 bnb
014566299 Uk
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Benefactors--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
READING IN ENGLISH
Literary classics
PR4560.A2 / C37 2008
Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; edited by Margaret Cardwell ; with an introduction and notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. - New ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - lvi, 482 p. ; 20 cm. - Oxford world's classics .
Includes bibliographical references (p. xl-xliii).
Introduction -- Note on the text -- A chronology of Charles Dickens -- Great expectations -- Appendix A: The original ending -- Appendix B: Dickens's working notes -- Appendix C: All the year round instalments and chapter-numbering in different editions -- Appendix D: The 1861 theatrical adaptation -- Explanatory notes.
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to adulthood, as he moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering a variety of extraordinary characters ranging from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, locked up with her unhappy past and living with her ward, the arrogant, beautiful Estella.
Pip must discover his true self, and his own set of values and priorities. Whether such values allow one to prosper in the complex world of early Victorian England is the major question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens's most fascinating, and disturbing, novels.
9780199219766 0199219761
2007051451
GBA847439 bnb
014566299 Uk
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Benefactors--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
READING IN ENGLISH
Literary classics
PR4560.A2 / C37 2008
