Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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Great Expectations

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Editor - Charlotte Mitchell

Introduction by - David Trotter

Notes by - Charlotte Mitchell

Penguin Classics
Paperback : 30 Jan 2003

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‘It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me’

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens begins with a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor – these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip’s life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman. Dickens’s haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his ‘great expectations’.

This definitive edition of Great Expectations uses the text from the first published edition of 1861. It includes a map of Kent in the early nineteenth century, and appendices on Dickens’s original ending and his working notes, giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work.

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Customer Review: 04 November 2008

Reviewer: Abhinandan

'Truly a classic! This story is about a young boy who helps a convict and then falls into Great Expectations not knowing who his benefactor is. He falls in love with the beautiful but ‘heartless’ Estella, thinking all the time that Miss Havisham, the foster mother to Estella has planned it all out. When he comes to know the reality, the world comes a crashing with all his hopes. Set in medieval England, this is a must read!! '