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.

The story of Pip, and how figures from his past haunt him and in time he uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart.

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Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Benefactors--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.


England--Fiction.

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