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Great expectations
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Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their p...
Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.
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- Creator
- Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by David Trotter ; edited and with notes by Charlotte Mitchell
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- London : Penguin Books, 2003, ©1996
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- xxviii, 514 pages : map ; 20 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780486475707, 0140434895, 9780141439563, 9780140434897, 0141439564, 014104036X, 0486475700, 9780143106272, 9780141040363, 0143106279
- OCLC
- ocm55622488
- "Reprinted with updated further reading, revised Dickens Chronology and new appendix 2003"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction -- Dickens chronology -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- Map: Kent in the early nineteenth century -- Great expectations: Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- Notes -- Ending as originally conceived -- Dickens's working notes -- Running heads added in 1867-8
Subjects
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
- Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
- Benefactors -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
- England -- Fiction.
- Revenge -- Fiction.
- Orphans -- Fiction.
- Coming of age -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Pirrip, Philip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- London, England -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading