ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dickens wrote Great Expectations with the aim of making his audience aware of certain social issues he felt needed changing.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Pickwick Papers – 1836 The Pickwick Papers, also known as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, was the first novel of Charles Dickens. Chapman & Hall published it in monthly installments from March of 1836 until November 1837.

Detailed explanation-3: -The moral theme of Great Expectations is quite simple: affection, loyalty, and conscience are more important than social advancement, wealth, and class.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dickens conceived of Great Expectations as a means of restoring his publication’s fortunes. The book is still immensely popular a century and a half later.

Detailed explanation-5: -A novel by Charles Dickens (1812–1870), which first appeared in All the Year Round in 1860–61, and in book form (three volumes) in 1861.