Great Expectations

'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' 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 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.

ISBN 0141439564   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780141439563 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 373 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Penguin Classics   Series editor Ingham, Patricia Format Paperback   Series title Penguin Classics S. Publication date 30 Nov 2002   Previous ISBN 9780141194363 Non-book description xxviii, 514 p. :   Height (mm) 198 Writer of introduction David Trotter   Width (mm) 129 Library of Congress 2003277030   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY 823.8   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21   Alternative ISBN 9781400156320 Pages 544

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