Great expectations /
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| Author / Creator: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. |
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| Imprint: | Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c1998. |
| Description: | 654 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Broadview literary texts |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3731609 |
| Summary: | Originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectationsis the 'autobiography' of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman. Unlike many of Dickens's earlier works, the novel is not so much a protest against social evils as a sustained meditation upon the process of social reform in Victorian England. It is this which gives such importance to the book's handling of the theme of the gentleman, a theme central both to Dickens's society and to his own life story. |
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| Physical Description: | 654 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1551111748 |