One of Sir Trevor McDonald's favourite books.
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.
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'Hold your noise' cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. `Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!'
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'Hold your noise' cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. `Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!' Great Expectations opens with a terrifying encounter on the desolate Kent marches and goes on to trace its consequences for Pip, a callow boy with grandiose aspirations to be a gentleman. Acclaimed by many as Dickens's greatest novel, it features celebrated characters such as lovable Joe Gargery, sinister convict Magwitch, reclusive Miss Haversham and her cold-hearted ward Estella as it follows Pip on his journey of discovery of the real meaning of loyalty and friendship.
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Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens and published by John Murray an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
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