Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after See more

As Dickens began writing Great Expectations, he undertook a series of hugely popular and remunerative reading tours. His domestic … See more

Robert L. Patten estimates that All the Year Round sold 100,000 copies of Great Expectations each week, and Mudie, the largest circulating … See more

The book includes three "stages" of Pip's expectations.
First stage
Philip "Pip" Pirrip is a … See more

Pip and his family
• Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, an orphan and the protagonist and narrator of Great Expectations. In his … See more

In periodicals
Dickens and Wills co-owned All the Year Round, one 75%, the other 25%. Since Dickens was his own publisher, he did not require a contract … See more

Great Expectations's single most obvious literary predecessor is Dickens's earlier first-person narrator-protagonist David Copperfield. … See more