Great Expectations – The most famous work of Charles Dicken, which summarized author life experience and his profound thinking about the people, society and human life.

by Charles Dickens

Overview

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in All the Year Round[1] from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times.

Great Expectations is the most famous works of Charles Dickens. Experienced all kinds of human life, Author has a profound understanding and recognizing about the people, the society and his life experiences .Consequently all those mature thinking are summarized in the "Great Expectations".


Great Expectations is written in the style of bildungsroman, which follows the story of a man or woman in their quest for maturity, usually starting from childhood and ending in the main character's eventual adulthood. Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip, writing about his life from his early childhood until adulthood and attempting to become a gentleman along the way. The novel can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.

The main plot of Great Expectations takes place between Christmas Eve 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old (and which happens to be the year of Dickens' birth), and the winter of 1840.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013032514
Publisher:	Alan Falkner
Publication date:	08/21/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	88 KB

About the Author

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is probably the greatest novelist England has ever produced, the author of such famous books as A Christmas Carol, Hard Times, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, and Oliver Twist. His innate comic genius and shrewd depictions of Victorian life — along with his indelible characters — have made his books beloved by readers the world over. Dickens was born in Landport, Portsea, England and died in Kent after suffering a stroke. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know hunger, privation, and the horrors of the infamous debtors' prison and the evils of child labor. These unfortunate early life experiences helped shape many of his greatest works.

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