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Great Expectations

Great Expectations( )
Author: Dickens, Charles
Editor: Cardwell, Margaret
Series title:Clarendon Dickens Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-818591-8
Publication Date:Sep 1993
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Imprint:Clarendon Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $480.00
Book Description:

This edition of one of Dickens's greatest and best-loved novels is based on the three-volume edition of 1861. Textual footnotes record variants in manuscript, proofs, and other editions during Dickens's lifetime. The Introduction traces the process of composition, and discusses both the public reading version of the novel and an unperformed dramatic adaptation. Appendices include the original ending, and Dickens's notes.

Book Details
Pages:584
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.616 x 8.697 x 1.521 Inches
Book Weight:1.967 Pounds
Author Biography
Dickens, Charles (Author)
Charles Dickens, perhaps the best British novelist of the Victorian era, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England on February 7, 1812. His happy early childhood was interrupted when his father was sent to debtors' prison, and young Dickens had to go to work in a factory at age twelve. Later, he took jobs as an office boy and journalist before publishing essays and stories in the 1830s.

His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, made him a famous and popular author at the age of twenty-five. Subsequent works were published serially in periodicals and cemented his reputation as a master of colorful characterization, and as a harsh critic of social evils and corrupt institutions. His many books include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities.

Dickens married Catherine Hogarth in 1836, and the couple had nine children before separating in 1858 when he began a long affair with Ellen Ternan, a young actress. Despite the scandal, Dickens remained a public figure, appearing often to read his fiction. He died in 1870, leaving his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.

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