Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a classic within English literature, in which young Pip is at the center. This edition contains the definitive Clarendon text, including Dickens's working notes and the original ending. The book is intended for lovers of literary fiction and classic novels.
Description
Great Expectations includes some of Dickens's most memorable characters such as Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella, whom young Pip meets as he grows up. Pip grows up with little prospect, until a mysterious benefactor drastically changes his life. He discovers not only who this unknown person is, but also the deeper meaning of his own expectations and heart.
This moving story highlights Dickens’s memories of the past and explores the influence of the past on the present. The edition offers an extensive introduction, original working notes, and an excerpt from an early stage adaptation.
Product specifications
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Series: Oxford World's Classics
- Publication date: 12 June 2008
- Number of pages: 544
- ISBN: 9780199219766
- Theme: Classic fiction: literary and general
- BISAC: FICTION / Classics
About the author
The edition is compiled by Margaret Cardwell with an introduction and notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. Cardwell was Reader in English at Queen's College, Belfast. Douglas-Fairhurst is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford.