Great Expectations

English language

Published July 15, 1998

ISBN:
978-0-19-283359-4
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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'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. …

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Most of Dickens' books tell basically the same story, but always with an eye for characters, and always with plenty of sympathy and humanity.

Here he is a little treacherous, first showing certain persons as contemptuous or disgusting, then only gradually unfolding their place in the great story. Disappointingly, the ending is a little rushed (especially given that he takes his usual 450 pages to get there), and leaves much to be desired. However, most of the threads get tied up, and it's refreshing that he doesn't see the need for a perfect happy-end this time.

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