Great expectations

by The Manila Times

May 24, 2022 12:07 am

FROM December 1860 to August 1861, Charles Dickens published his second novel, 'Great Expectations,' in the weekly periodical All the Year Round. Set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century, the novel starts in a graveyard where Pip meets the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. The novel is filled with imagery — wealth and poverty, prison houses and chains, fights to the death and the eventual triumph of good over evil.

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