Charles Dickens' Great Expectations - Classic Fiction
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The 13th success in his own life, this author has only two books in the Writers Club top 26.
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this book:
Great
Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is the second
novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first
person. Great Expectations is a coming-of-age novel, and it is a
classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and
personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first
published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year
Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.
On
Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years
old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while
visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict
scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles,
from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind,
passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers
recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another
convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they
escaped.
Miss
Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives
in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook"
(who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted
daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with
whom he falls in love, with Miss Havisham's encouragement. Pip visits
Miss Havisham multiple times, and during one of these visits, he
brings Joe along. During their absence, Joe's wife is attacked by a
mysterious individual and lives out the rest of her life as a mute
invalid.
Later, when
Pip is a young apprentice at Joe's blacksmith shop, a lawyer, Mr.
Jaggers, approaches him and tells him he is to receive a large sum of
money from an anonymous benefactor and must immediately leave for
London, where he is to become a gentleman...
(source:
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About
the author:
Charles
John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English
writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most
memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the
greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works
enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary
genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels
and short stories continue to be widely popular.
Dickens was
regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His 1843 novella, A
Christmas Carol, is one of the most influential works ever written,
and it remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every
artistic genre. His creative genius has been praised by fellow
writers—from Leo Tolstoy to G. K. Chesterton and George Orwell—for
its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterizations, and
social criticism.
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