Great Expectations By Charles Dickens (Paperback, 2002)

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& It was now too late & too far to go back & I went on & the mists had all solemnly risen now & 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 & 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 & he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman Dickens’s haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education & 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 & appendices on Dickens’s original ending & his working notes giving readers an illuminating glimpse into the mind of a great novelist at work