Oxford World's Classics Great Expectations

كتاب Oxford World's Classics Great Expectations
المؤلف: Charles Dickens

you are to understand , Mr. Pip , that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret ... ' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith , with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London . Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch , the time - withered Miss Havisham , and her proud and beautiful ward , Estella - and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart . A powerful and moving novel , Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens's memories of the past and its grip on the present , and it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other's lives . This edition includes a lively introduction , Dickens's working notes , the novel's original ending , and an extract from an early theatrical adaptation . It reprints the definitive Clarendon text .