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Great Expectations
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*Great Expectations* is Charles Dickens's coming-of-age novel following the orphan Pip, whose life is transformed by an anonymous benefactor, tracing his pursuit of wealth, status, and love in Victorian England. It suits readers of classic literature and anyone studying the nineteenth-century English novel.
One note: the 1998 date is a reprint or edition year; the work was first published in 1860–61.
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
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