Great Expectations: Book Guide, Author and Facts
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens — plot, author, genre and where to read, in one evergreen guide.
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 and Hall published the novel in three volumes.
Quick facts about Great Expectations
- Title: Great Expectations
- Author: Charles Dickens
- First published: 1861
- Genre: authors, benefactors, bildungsromans
- OpenLibrary ID: OL8721462W
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is widely available in print, ebook and audiobook editions from major retailers and libraries.
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What is Great Expectations about?
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel.
Who wrote Great Expectations?
Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens.
When was Great Expectations published?
Great Expectations was first published in 1861.
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