Great Expectations

Overview

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.

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Bio of Charles Dickens

One of the grand masters of Victorian literature Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and "slave" factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years' formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney's clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

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CONNECT eBooks Classics

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1.93 MB

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eBook ISBN

9781434000651