Download or read book Charles Dickens's Great Expectations written by Dr Mary Hammond and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Mary Hammond observes in her wide-ranging publishing history of the novel, Great Expectations' life has extended far beyond the literary Anglophone world and owes a great deal to a particular moment in the mid-Victorian publishing industry. Her book features an exhaustive survey of the novel's different appearances in serial, book and dramatic form and is enhanced by appendices with archival information, contemporary reviews and a comprehensive bibliography of editions and adaptations.