About the Book: Dickenss Great Expectations
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provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly
studied classic texts. Great Expectations (1861) is not only one of the last
great novels to be written by Dickens but is also one which centres around his
primary themes: the importance of childhood in relationship to adult life,
concepts of guilt and imprisonment