Great Expectations

by Dickens, Charles, Mitchell, Charlotte, Trotter, David | Fiction & related items
Published 30/01/2003 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 544 pages
193 x 129 x 25mm | 374g

'His novels will endure as long as the language itself' Peter AckroydDickens's haunting late novel depicts the education and development of a young man, Pip, as his life is changed by a series of events - 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 - and he discovers the true nature of his 'great expectations'. This definitive edition includes appendices on Dickens's original ending, giving an illuminating glimpse into a great novelist at work.

With an Introduction by DAVID TROTTER Edited and with notes by CHARLOTTE MITCHELL