Great Expectations | Novel | Charles Dickens

Great Expectations is Authored by Charles Dickens. Charles John Huffam dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and he was also a greatest novelist of the Victorian era. He couldn't enjoy the popularity of his works during his lifetime, but by the 20th century the critics and Scholars admired him as literary genius. 

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, Hampshire, England. He quit his schooling to work in a factory, as his father was completely entangled in the Debtor's prison. Despite his lack of formal education he started editing a weekly journal and gone with this for 20 years. He wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. 

Great Expectations is the Dickens' second novel to be narrated fully in first person. The story starts in the following way. On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard, while visiting the graves of his parents and siblings. Pip now lives with his abusive elder sister and her kind husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file. Early on Christmas morning Pip returns with the file, a pie and brandy. During Christmas dinner, at the moment Pip's theft is about to be discovered, soldiers arrive and ask Joe to repair some shackles. Joe and Pip accompany them as they recapture the convict who is fighting with another escaped convict. You might also like to download Gone with the wind novel by Margaret Mitchell.

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