Great Expectations
About the Story
English author Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the second of eight children, lived in the coastal region of Kent as a young child and looked back on his life there as idyllic. But when Dickens was 9 years old, his family moved back to London where his father, who had a reputation for being unable to manage money, was arrested and imprisoned in a debtors’ prison. At age eleven, Dickens was sent to work 10 hours a day in a warehouse where he pasted labels on pots in order to help support his family. Dickens eventually returned to school and later worked as a law clerk and court reporter before publishing his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, in 1836. Great Expectations, Dickens’s 13th novel, remains one of his most well-known works and includes some of the most memorable characters in English literature.
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