Great Expectations

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and one of his greatest critical and popular successes. It is a coming-of-age story, or bildungsroman, narrating the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens’s second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens’s weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It was issued in book form in 1861 and has inspired numerous adaptations.