Great Expectations
1861 novel by Charles Dickens
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Summary
Great Expectations is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.31% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,570 views/month, #88 of 28,446).[2]
Key Facts
- Author: Charles Dickens[3]
- Instance of: serialized fiction[4]
- Genre: black comedy[5], bildungsroman[6]
- Follows: A Tale of Two Cities[7]
- Followed by: Our Mutual Friend[8]
- Commons category: Great Expectations[9]
- Language of work or name: English[10]
- Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[11]
- Inception: 1860[12]
- Publication date: March 23, 1861[13]
- Characters: Pip[14], Miss Havisham[15], Estella[16], Abel Magwitch[17], John Wemmick[18], Compeyson[19]
- Has edition or translation: Great Expectations[20], Great Expectations (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)[21], Q59236072[22]
- Narrative location: London[23], Kent[24]
- Topic's main category: Category:Great Expectations[25]
- Main subject: orphan[26]
- Work available at URL: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/great-expectations[27]
- Described by source: The Encyclopedia Americana[28]
- Published in: All the Year Round[29]
- Title: Great Expectations[30]
- Different from: Wielkie nadzieje[31]
- First line: My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.[32]
- Number of parts of this work: 17[33]
- Derivative work: Great Expectations[34], Pip[35], Fitoor[36], Lysande förhoppningar[37]
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Why It Matters
Great Expectations has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]