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Great Expectations
| Content Provider | Literature Collection |
|---|---|
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| Description | 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. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman & Hall published the novel in three volumes. The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery—poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death—and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. [Content Source: Wikisource] |
| File Format | |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Classic Literature English Novel Literary Classic Timeless Literature Historical Fiction Literary Masterpiece Cultural Impact Iconic Characters English literature Popular books Story books Bestseller books Charles Dickens Pip Estella Miss Havisham Great Expectations Bildungsroman Victorian England Social Class Morality Wealth and Poverty Redemption Coming-of-Age Satis House Magwitch Joe Gargery Jaggers Orphan Pip's Growth London Symbolism |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Book |
