Great Expectations (Collins Classics)

Author(s): Charles Dickens

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Great Expectations Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840.


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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced 'Oliver Twist', the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

General Fields

  • : 9780008182274
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 0.32
  • : January 2016
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Charles Dickens
  • : Paperback
  • : 1703
  • : English
  • : 448