Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by David Trotter ; edited and with notes by Charlotte Mitchell.
London :
Penguin Books,
2003.
xxviii, 514 pages :
map ;
20 cm.
Penguin classics
"Reprinted with updated further reading, revised Dickens Chronology and new appendix 2003"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Dickens chronology -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- Map: Kent in the early nineteenth century -- Great expectations: Volume I -- Volume II -- Volume III -- Notes -- Ending as originally conceived -- Dickens's working notes -- Running heads added in 1867-8.
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Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class.