by Charles Dickens · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192833594
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«Great Expectations» is Charles Dickens's bildungsroman published by Oxford University Press España in paperback (544 pages, in English).
The orphan Pip grows up in the Kent marshes and ventures into Victorian London, where he crosses paths with the escaped convict Magwitch and the enigmatic Miss Havisham and her ward Estella. Dickens here traces the dangers of ambition and obsession with social status.
Part of Oxford World's Classics. Text from the Clarendon edition, introduction by Kate Flint, editing and notes by Margaret Cardwell, and appendices with the discarded ending and Dickens's working notes.
May be useful for intermediate-level English students and readers seeking an annotated edition of a Victorian classic.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
