ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Great Expectations, novel by Charles Dickens, first published serially in All the Year Round in 1860–61 and issued in book form in 1861. The classic novel was one of its author’s greatest critical and popular successes.

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: -Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham.

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. Read more about Dickens’s previous serialized novel, A Tale of Two Cities.