Great Expectations

by Dickens, Charles; Cardwell, Margaret; Flint, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780192833594
• ISBN10: 0192833596
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

With a new introduction and notes, this edition of Great Expectations offers new insights into one of Dickens's most fascinating and disturbing novels. Charting the progress of Pip from childhood to adulthood, Dickens shows the dangers of being driven by a desire for wealth and social status. As Pip moves from the Kent marshes to busy, commercial London, encountering many extraordinary characters--from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, a woman locked up with her past--he is confronted with the challenge of establishing a sense of his own identity and values contrary to the plans others have for him.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi	(1)
Introduction	vii	(15)
Note on the Text	xxii	(2)
A Chronology of Charles Dickens	xxiv
GREAT EXPECTATIONS	1	(480)
APPENDIX A: The original ending	481	(2)
APPENDIX B: Dicken's working notes	483	(4)
APPENDIX C: All the Year Round instalments and chapter-numbering in different editions	487	(4)
Explanatory Notes	491	(13)
Further Reading	504