Great expectations /

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Great expectations / Charles Dickens. - New ed. / edited by Margaret Cardwell /with an introduction and notes by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - lvi, 482 p. ; 20 cm. - Oxford world's classics .

Includes bibliographical references (p. xl-xliii).

An unknown benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. His expectations prove to be unfounded however, and he must return home penniless.

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Social classes--Fiction.
Industrial revolution--England--Fiction.


England--Social life and customs--Fiction.

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