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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One of the greatest novels ever written, Dickens's great expectations is grim decrial of the socio-economic inequality in the class system in Victorian England. It centres around Pip, a poor young boy drawn into his society's upper class by different benefactors with shadowy motives. Most of his peers are excited to see him ';rising in the ranks,' but he quickly finds that being a gentleman is not all it's cracked up to be.Great Expectations has been adapted to big and small screens on numerous occasions, most recently as a film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes.Random House of Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
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Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens and published by McClelland & Stewart
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