Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A young orphan boy, living with his cruel older sister and her kind blacksmith husband, has an encounter with an escaped convict that changes his life. Later, he becomes the protégé of a wealthy but reclusive woman and falls in love with her adopted daughter. He then learns that an anonymous benefactor has left him a fortune, leading him to believe that his benefactor is the reclusive woman and that she intends for him to marry her adopted daughter. He moves to London to become a gentleman, but his great expectations are ultimately shattered when he learns the true identity of his benefactor and the reality of his love interest.
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- Published
- 1860
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 500-600
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- Büyük Umutlar
- Grandes Esperanzas
- Grandes Esperanças
- Grandi Speranze
- Große Erwartungen
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- 2nd on Best Foreign Work of Fiction Chosen by Francophone Writers (French literary magazine Transfuge)
- 4th on Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Novels (Entertainment Weekly)
- 4th on The 100 Greatest British Novels (BBC)
- 4th on Top 25 Pre-20th Century Classics (The Guardian)
- 5th on For The Love of Books (For The Love of Books)
- 8th on Top 50 Books (The Daily Telegraph)
- 14th on The 100 Greatest Novels (greatbooksguide.com)
- 14th on The Top 10: The Greatest Books of All Time (The Top 10 (Book))
- 16th on The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time (The Novel 100)
- 17th on The Big Read (BBC)
- 17th on The Complete 500: OCLC (OCLC)
- 17th on The Greatest Books of All Time (Reader's Digest)
- 19th on 30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die (The British Museums, Libraries, and Archives Society)
- 20th on 50 Classics You Must Read Before You Die (Gyldendal (Denmark Publisher))
- 24th on Harvard Book Store Staff's Favorite 100 Books (Harvard Book Store)
- 24th on Our Users' Top 100 Favorite Books of All Time (The Greatest Books Users)
- 29th on Readers’ Top 100 Novels Of All Time (Guardian)
- 31st on 100 Must-Read Classics, as Chosen by our Readers (Penguin (UK))
- 35th on The 100 Best Novels Of All Time In English (The Guardian)
- 37th on 100 Best Books (Montana State University)
- 37th on 100 Essential Books (Bravo! Magazine)
- 44th on R/ClassicLiterature's Top 100 Favorite Books (R/ClassicLiterature)
- 49th on My Favourite Book - Australian Big Read (Australian Big Read)
- 52nd on Top 100 Books, As Chosen By Canadians (The Gazette(Newspaper))
- 53rd on The 100 Best Books of World Literature (ABC.es)
- 250th on The 500 best books of all time from Culture Café users (Culture Café)
- 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List (1,000 Books to Read Before You Die(Book))
- 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read (The Guardian)
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- 100 Life-Changing Books (National Book Award)
- 150 Great Reads (The Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle )
- 200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature (The Center for Fiction)
- 500 Must Read Books (The Daily Telegraph)
- A Hundred Novels to Change Your Life (The Daily Mail)
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- Inteliquest's World's 100 Greatest Books of All-Time (InteliQuest)
- IWU Select 100 Must-Read Books (IWU (Faculty, Staff, and Students))
- Masterpieces of World Literature (Frank N. Magill)
- One Hundred Best Books (1916) (John Cowper Powys)
- Select 100 (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
- The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written (Easton Press)
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- The New Lifetime Reading Plan (The New Lifetime Reading Plan)
- 'The perfect library': the 196 books selected by 133 personalities (XLSemanal and Zenda)
- The Spouter-Inn; or, A Conversation with Great Books (The Spouter-Inn Podcast)
- Top 100 Works in World Literature (Norwegian Book Clubs, with the Norwegian Nobel Institute)
- What Harvard Professors Think Greatest Books Ever: Top 20 List (1977) (The Boston Globe (Newspaper))
- William H. F. Lamont’s 100 Best Novels (1947) (archive.org)