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Great Expectations
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This article is about the Charles Dickens novel. For other uses, see Great Expectations (disambiguation).
Great Expectations
Title page of Vol. 1 of first edition, July 1861
Author Charles DickensCountry United Kingdom
Language English
Series Weekly: 1 December 1860 – 3 August 1861
Genre Realistic fiction, social criticismPublisher Chapman & HallPublication date 1861 (in three volumes)
Media type Print
Pages 544
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1] Great Expectations is a HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman" \o "Bildungsroman" bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.[1] In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.
Dickens originally intended Great Expectations to be twice as long, but constraints imposed by the management of All the Year Round limited the novel's length. Collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens, the novel represents Dickens's peak and maturity as an author. According to G. K. Chesterton, Dickens penned Great Expectations in "the afternoon of [his] life and fame."[2] It was the penultimate novel Dickens completed, preceding Our Mutual Friend.
It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s.[3] From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch.[4] Great Expectationsis a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, "the hulks," barriers and chains, and fights to the death.[4] It therefore combines intrigue and
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Charles Dickens novel. For other uses, see Great Expectations (disambiguation).
Great Expectations
Title page of Vol. 1 of first edition, July 1861
Author Charles DickensCountry United Kingdom
Language English
Series Weekly: 1 December 1860 – 3 August 1861
Genre Realistic fiction, social criticismPublisher Chapman & HallPublication date 1861 (in three volumes)
Media type Print
Pages 544
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1] Great Expectations is a HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman" \o "Bildungsroman" bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.[1] In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.
Dickens originally intended Great Expectations to be twice as long, but constraints imposed by the management of All the Year Round limited the novel's length. Collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens, the novel represents Dickens's peak and maturity as an author. According to G. K. Chesterton, Dickens penned Great Expectations in "the afternoon of [his] life and fame."[2] It was the penultimate novel Dickens completed, preceding Our Mutual Friend.
It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s.[3] From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch.[4] Great Expectationsis a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, "the hulks," barriers and chains, and fights to the death.[4] It therefore combines intrigue and