Great Expectations |
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Author:
| Dickens, Charles Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert |
Editor:
| Cardwell, Margaret |
Series title: | Oxford World's Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-921976-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $16.32AUD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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A powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other's lives. This edition reprints the definitive Clarendon text. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's new introduction ranges widely across critical issues raised by the novel: its biographical genesis, ideas of origin and progress and what makes a "gentleman," memory, melodrama, and...
More DescriptionA powerful and moving novel, Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present, and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other's lives. This edition reprints the definitive Clarendon text. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's new introduction ranges widely across critical issues raised by the novel: its biographical genesis, ideas of origin and progress and what makes a "gentleman," memory, melodrama, and the book's critical reception. The book includes four appendices and the fullest set of critical notes in any mass-market edition.