GREAT EXPECTATIONS

by Charles Dickens, The Gunston Trust (Editor)

Overview

GREAT EXPECTATIONS by CHARLES DICKENS - GUNSTON CLASSICS.

The novel 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798331415785
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/23/2024
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM DICKENS - 1812 – 1870. - was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington