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Great Expectations charts Pip’s often painful childhood through adulthood, moving from the bogs of Kent to bustling London. He encounters a variety of unusual characters, from Magwitch, the escaped convict, to Miss Havisham, the anointed one in prison. Her unhappy past and her life with her ward, the beautiful, haughty Estella, make Pip understand the basic knowledge, values, and verses of Rome. Whether such values allow him to thrive in the complex world of early Victorian England is the central question posed by Great Expectations, one of Dickens’s most fascinating and disturbing novels. This definitive edition includes the original important text, Dickens’s brief working notes, and the serial installments and chapter sections in various editions. It also uses the final Clarendon text.
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