About this book
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens is a novel first published serially from 1860 to 1861. The story follows Pip, a young orphan living with his sister and her blacksmith husband on England's coastal marshes. After a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict and strange visits to the bitter Miss Havisham and her cold adopted daughter Estella, Pip's life transforms when he mysteriously receives a fortune from an unknown benefactor. This bildungsroman explores wealth and poverty, love and rejection, through vivid characters and dramatic scenes that have captivated readers for generations.
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Details
- Author
- Charles Dickens, 1812–1870
- Written
- 1860
- Form
- Novel
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Novels, Classics of Literature, British Literature
- Reading level
- Fairly easy to read
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- 1 July 1998, on Project Gutenberg
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