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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens
1861 Kent and London, England 59 chapters
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About This Book

Young Pip, a blacksmith's apprentice, receives a mysterious fortune from an unknown benefactor and is thrust into London society. A profound meditation on ambition, loyalty, guilt, and what it truly means to be a gentleman.

About the Author

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) considered Great Expectations his finest work. The novel draws on his own experience of rising from humble origins and his complicated feelings about wealth, class, and self-improvement.

Time & Place

Period: Early to mid 19th century
Setting: Kent and London, England