Pip, like the heroes of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist (183738), is an orphan growing up in deprived circumstances, and the first third of the novel is devoted to his childhood. Like one of Dickens’s earlier novels, David Copperfield (1849-50), the story is narrated by the protagonist himself, whose name is Pip and whom we understand to be growing and learning as the novel proceeds. That is to say, it is in the broadest sense about the education of the book’s protagonist and the growth of his moral awareness. Great Expectations is what critics call a bildungsroman or a ‘coming-of-age’ novel. Widely regarded as one of his masterpieces, it is arguably his most accomplished book. Great Expectations, published as a serial between 18, was the thirteenth of Dickens’s fifteen novels.
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