ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Great Expectation was written by
A
George Eliot
B
Thackeray
C
Dickens
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -What did Charles Dickens write? Among Charles Dickens’s many works are the novels The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), and Great Expectations (1861).

Detailed explanation-5: -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’s weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.

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