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# Most thorough textual edition Includes 22 critical essays Comprehensive historical & thematic context Great Expectations: A Norton Critical Edition: 0

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> 📖 Unlock the ultimate Great Expectations experience — where classic meets critical brilliance!

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## Key Features

- • **Rich Contextual Insights:** Thirteen essays explore Victorian social mobility, crime, and childhood, deepening your understanding.
- • **Student & Scholar Approved:** Highly rated for academic use with excellent supplementary materials to boost comprehension.
- • **Enhanced Learning Experience:** Includes background on the novel’s inception and public-reading history for immersive study.
- • **Diverse Critical Perspectives:** Twenty-two contemporary and modern critiques offer a 360° view of Dickens’s masterpiece.
- • **Definitive Textual Scholarship:** Edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations studies, ensuring unmatched accuracy and depth.

## Overview

This Norton Critical Edition of Great Expectations offers the most authoritative text available, enriched with extensive essays on the novel’s background, themes, and critical reception. Perfect for students and scholars seeking a comprehensive, multi-dimensional understanding of Dickens’s timeless classic.

## Description

This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available. The newly established text is based on all extant materials and is accompanied by several textual essays. "Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of Great Expectations's inception and internal chronology. A discussion of the public-reading version of the novel is also included. A wonderfully rich "Contexts" section collects thirteen pieces, centering on the novel’s major themes: the link between author and hero and, relatedly, Victorian notions of gentility, snobbishness, and social mobility; the often brutal training, at home and at school, of children born around 1800; and the central issues of crime and punishment. "Criticism" gathers twenty-two assessments of Great Expectations, both contemporary and modern, which offer a range of perspectives on Dickens and his novel.

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| Best Sellers Rank | 42,738 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 728 in Poetry & Drama Criticism 2,168 in Fiction Classics (Books) 6,183 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 182 Reviews |

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