TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickens,Charles
AU  - Cardwell,Margaret
AU  - Douglas-Fairhurst,Robert
TI  - Great expectations 
T2  - Oxford world's classics
SN  - 9780199219766
AV  - PR4560.A2 C37 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Ex-convicts
KW  - Benefactors
KW  - Young men
KW  - Revenge
KW  - Orphans
KW  - England
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
KW  - Literary classics
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -