Book · 1861 · Fiction

Great Expectations

Name: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens

Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House) · 469 pages

★ 8.8 editorial score

Pip, a blacksmith's boy, is handed a fortune by an unknown benefactor and turns snob. Miss Havisham waits in her rotted wedding dress, and Dickens makes the shame of low birth unbearable.

Genre

Coming of age Victorian literature

Medium

Novel

Subject

Childhood Social outcasts

Setting

London

Time

1861Depicts Victorian Era (Britain)Depicts 1810s

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