Great Expectations

Name: Great Expectations
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ISBN: 9780199219766

ISBN-10: 0199219761

ISBN-13: 9780199219766

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Charles Dickens, Margaret Cardwell, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a more promising life in London. Despite his good fortune, Pip is haunted by figures from his past--the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham, and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella--and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart. A powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which…

Book details

List price: $9.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Margaret Cardwell, Formerly Reader in English at the Queen's University, Belfast. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford.

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst was born in 1968 and lives in Oxford, where he is a Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College. His most recent book, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, won the Duff Cooper Prize for Biography.