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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 bildungsroman, or a
coming-of-age novel, and the story genre is 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.In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published
the novel in three volumes.
Great Expectations was to be twice as long, but
constraints imposed by the management of All the Year Roundlimited the novel's
length. Collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens, the novel
represents Dickens' peak and maturity as an author. According to G. K.
Chesterton, Dickens penned Great Expectations in "the afternoon of [his]
life and fame.It was the penultimate novel Dickens completed, preceding Our
Mutual Friend.
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