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.
9780199219766 (pbk.) : £5.99 0199219761 (pbk.) : £5.99
Social classes--Fiction.
Industrial revolution--England--Fiction.
England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
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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.
9780199219766 (pbk.) : £5.99 0199219761 (pbk.) : £5.99
Social classes--Fiction.
Industrial revolution--England--Fiction.
England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
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