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Author:

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, author.

Title:

Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; edited by Margaret Cardwell ; with an introduction and notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.

Edition:

New edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

lvi, 482 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Benefactors--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Relations entre hommes et femmes--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Ex-détenus--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Bienfaiteurs--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Jeunes hommes--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Vengeance--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Benefactors.
Ex-convicts.
Man-woman relationships.
Orphans.
Revenge.
Young men.
England.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.

Other Authors:

Cardwell, Margaret, editor.
Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, writer of introduction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xl-xliii).

Contents:

Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- 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.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Oxford world's classics

ISBN:

0199219761
9780199219766

OCLC:

(OCoLC)184906249

LCCN:

2007051451

Locations:

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah) — Copies: 10