Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Great Expectations / Charles Dickens ; with an introduction by Stanley Weintraub and a new afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff. - New York : Signet Classics, c2009. - xii, 508 p. ; 18 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-508).

The orphaned Pip is serving as a blacksmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."



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Young men--England--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Benefactors--Fiction.
Ex-convicts--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Industrial revolution--Great Britain--Fiction.
Social classes--Great Britain--Fiction.


England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.


Bildungsromans.

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