Great Expectations

1861 · Book · black comedy, Bildungsroman

Charles Dickens

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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by the English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. 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 & Hall published the novel in three volumes.

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Type: Book
Release date: March 23, 1861
Genres: black comedy, Bildungsroman
Created by: Charles Dickens
Countries: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland