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.