GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Illustrated Edition): An Illustrated Victorian Coming-of-Age Tale of Class Ambition, Mystery, and Redemption

Great Expectations is a bildungsroman or a coming-of-age novel and it is a classic work of 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. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life his works enjoyed unp recedented fame and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.