Great Expectations
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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.
Title page of Vol. I of the first edition, July 1861
Miss Havisham with Estella and Pip. Art by H. M. Brock
Pip is ashamed of Joe at Satis House, by Francis Arthur Fraser
Magwitch makes himself known to Pip
Charles Dickens
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Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era
Great Expectations
…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…
Portrait by Jeremiah Gurney, c. 1867–1868
Charles Dickens's birthplace, 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire
2 Ordnance Terrace (house on the left), Chatham, Kent, Dickens's home from 1817 to 1821
An illustration by Fred Bernard of Dickens at work in a shoe-blacking factory after his father had been sent to the Marshalsea, published in the 1892 edition of Forster's Life of Charles Dickens