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.
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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.
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Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens and published by McClelland & Stewart
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