Great Expectations
- 449
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
- Film 1946 +11
- On screen
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Our view
Pip divides readers, and that may be the point: Dickens follows an orphan’s ambitions and lets him learn, slowly, who around him truly deserved respect. The supporting cast, from generous Joe to the unforgettable Miss Havisham, does much of the work. The long sentences and winding plot defeat some readers, and some feel that not every thread ties off neatly. For those willing to give a nineteenth-century novel its time.
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About the book
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by the English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman & Hall published the novel in three volumes.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 12 times — from 1917 to 2023.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 1,122 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 88% of the weight and the score stays at 7.2 — the Classics average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 161 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 7.1 | 961 | 86% |
Frequently asked
How long is Great Expectations?
It has 449 pages — longer than 84% of the ranked books in Classics.
In this book
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