Great Expectations (1860-61), narrated by the orphan Pip, offers fascinating explorations of guilt, wealth, passion, time, responsibility, and affection, and presents unforgettable portraits of the ruined Miss Havisham, the cold beauty Miss Estella, and the loving blacksmith Joe Gargery. This novel appeared in issues of Dickens’s weekly journal, All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861, without illustrations.

Creator

• Dickens, Charles

Subject

• Ex-convicts--Fiction
• Benefactors--Fiction
• Orphans--Fiction
• Revenge--Fiction
• England--Fiction

Publisher

• Charles Dickens

Language

• English

Identifier

• PR4560.A1.1861

Alternate title

• All the year round : Great expectations

Year

• 1860-1861

Date created

• 1860-1861

Resource type

• Book

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Last modified

• 2022-09-16