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Als Findelkind im Armenhaus einer englischen Kleinstadt aufgewachsen, flüchtet sich der junge Oliver Twist aus den Fängen seines brutalen Lehrherrn nach London. Doch im Moloch der Großstadt gerät er bald an den skrupellosen Hehler Fagin, der ein seltsames Interesse daran zu haben scheint, Oliver in die Welt des Verbrechens hineinzuziehen ... Wegen seiner präzisen Milieuschilderungen und seines entwaffnenden Sinns für skurrile Komik zählt "Oliver Twist" bis heute zu den bedeutendsten und beliebtesten Romanen der englischsprachigen Literatur. (Dickens, Charles 1812 - 1870)

Die Geschichte vom Waisenkind Philip Pirrip (Pip) und seinen großen Erwartungen fasziniert jede Lesergeneration.

Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a more promising life in London. Despite his good fortune, 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 reprints the definitive Clarendon text. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's new introduction ranges widely across critical issues raised by the novel: its biographical genesis, ideas of origin and progress and what makes a gentleman, memory, melodrama, and the book's critical reception. The book includes four appendices and the fullest set of critical notes in any mass-market edition.