Great Expectations
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Great Expectations is a fictional novel serialised in 1860-1961 by British author Charles Dickens in the Victorian periodical All the Year Round in the United Kingdom. It was later published by Chapman and Hall in 1961.
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The back cover synopsis of the book reads as follows:
"In the marshy mists of a village churchyard, a tiny orphan boy named Pip is suddenly terrified by a shivering, limping convict on the run. Years later, a supremely arrogant young Pip boards the coach to London, where, by the grace of a mysterious benefactor, he will join the ranks of the idle rich and "become a gentleman." Finally, in the luminous mists of the village at evening, Pip the man meets Estella, his dazzlingly beautiful tormentor, in a ruined garden - and lays to rest all the heartaches and illusions that his "great expectations" have brought upon him.
Dickens' biographer Edgar H. Johnson has said that - except for the author's last-minute tampering with his original ending - Great Expectations is "the most perfectly constructed and perfectly written of all Dickens's works."
In John Irving's Introduction to this edition, the novelist takes the view that Dickens's revised ending is "far more the mirror of the quality of trust in the novel as a whole." Both versions of the ending are printed here."
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Great Expectations received "near universal acclaim" upon its publication. In 2015 Great Expectations was ranked 4th on the list of the 100 Greatest British Novels (a pollof book criticts outside the United Kingdom).
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