Charles Dickens
Penguin (Mitchell) · 2003
The Penguin Classics edition is the right Great Expectations for most — readable, well introduced, and it prints Dickens's original (darker) ending in an appendix alongside the revised one he published. Good notes, low price. This is where I'd start.
Norton Critical (Rosenberg) · 1999
The Norton Critical Edition, edited by Edgar Rosenberg, has been called 'an editorial masterpiece' — the definitive Clarendon text, the discarded ending, Dickens's working notes, and full criticism. The one to own if you're studying the novel.
Oxford World's Classics · 2008
Oxford World's Classics gives you a scholarly text based on the Clarendon edition, with Margaret Cardwell's introduction and notes. A strong alternative to Norton, lighter on the criticism.
Free (public domain) · 1861
Great Expectations is public domain and free. Free and complete — though note that free files usually give only the revised ending, where the print editions include the original too.
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