Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's 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 and 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. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith.
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| Published | Serialised 1860–61, book form 1861 |
| Publisher | Chapman & Hall |
| Preceded by | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Followed by | Our Mutual Friend |
About Great Expectations
A former orphan named Pip is sent to London and later transformed into a high class gentleman after receiving help from an anonymous benefactor.
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Latest information about Great Expectations updated on July 28 2021.
