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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
Mar 29, 2024 · Great Expectations, novel by Charles Dickens, first published serially in 1860–61 and issued in book form in 1861. The classic novel was one of its author’s greatest critical and popular successes. It chronicles the coming of age of the orphan Pip while also addressing such issues as social class and human worth.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, first published in serialized form between 1860 and 1861, is a classic novel that unfolds against the backdrop of Victorian England. The story is narrated by Pip, an orphan raised by his sister and her husband.
Pip is an orphan living in southeast England with his foul-tempered sister, Mrs. Joe, and her gentle husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith. On Christmas Eve, Pip encounters an escaped convict in a leg-iron who scares Pip into stealing food and a metal file for him.
A short summary of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Great Expectations.
A Summary and Analysis of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Great Expectations is one of Dickens’s most popular novels: perhaps only Oliver Twist and David Copperfield are equally well-known and well-regarded among his full-length novels ( A Christmas Carol, technically a novella, is surely ...
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