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Great Expectations Wiki Information
Great Expectations
is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round
[1] from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular novels; having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. [2]
Great Expectations
is written in the genre of "bildungsroman" or the style of book that follows the story of a man or woman in their quest for maturity, usually starting from childhood ending in the main characters eventual adulthood. Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood and trying to be a gentleman along the way. The story can also be considered semi-autobiographical of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.
The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840. [3]
Each installment in All the Year Round
contained two chapters and was written in a way that kept readers interested from week to week, while still satisfying their curiosity at the end of each one.
Its first appearance in volume form was as three-volume novel, without illustrations, in July 1861.
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Plot summary
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- 1959 - starring Dinsdale Landen as Pip, Helen Lindsay as Estella and Derek Benfield as Landlord. (BBC television series)
- 1967 - starring Gary Bond and Francesca Annis.
- 1974 - starring Michael York and Sarah Miles, directed by Joseph Hardy.
- 1975 - Stage Musical (London West End). Music by Cyril Ornadel, starring Sir John Mills. Ivor Novello Award for Best British Musical.
- 1981 - starring Derek Francis, directed by Julian Amyes.
- 1981 - starring George Ndirangu, directed by b.dot njuguna.
- 1981 - BBC series starring Stratford Jones, Gerry Sunquist, Joan Hickson, Patsy Kensit and Sarah-Jane Varley. Produced by Barry Letts, and directed by Julian Amyes.
- 1983 - an animated children's version, starring Phillip Hinton, Liz Horne, Robin Stewart, and Bill Kerr.
- 1989 - starring Anthony Hopkins as Magwitch and Jean Simmons as Miss Havisham, directed by Kevin Connor.
- 1998 - starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
- 1999 - starring Ioan Gruffudd as Pip, Justine Waddell as Estella, and Charlotte Rampling as Miss Havisham (Masterpiece Theatre—TV)
- 2009 - Performed at Theatre Clwyd by Graham Bickley, Eleanor Howell, Steven Meo, Rhiannon Oliver, Greg Palmer, Vivien Parry, Robert Perkins, Steffan Rhodri, Simon Watts and directed by Tim Baker.
- 2009 - The scene in which Pip declares his love for Estella is read by Dan Stevens in an online film for
Cultural references and spin-offs
- Great Expectations, the Untold Story
(1986), starring John Stanton, directed by Tim Burstall is a spin-off movie depicting the adventures of Magwitch in Australia.
- In explaining the character Pip, the creators of South Park
made a parody episode, "Pip". It initially followed the plot, but spun off on a tangent (one involving robot monkeys) that made Miss Havisham more villainous (by way of a brain-switching device) as a parody of the fact that Dickens had changed the ending to fit the fads at the time.
- Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
is a re-imagining of Magwitch's return to England, with the addition, among other things, of a fictionalised Charles Dickens character and plot-line.
- Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip
is set in Bougainville where, during a time of civil unrest, a white man uses Great Expectations
as the basis for his lessons to the local children.
- The plot and characters of Great Expectations feature heavily in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. Miss Havisham is Thursday's friend and mentor, and Fforde draws from the manuscript to further along the story and give a glimpse of what goes on inside the world of Great Expectations when no one is reading it.
- The novel is referenced in a song named after it, by the New Jersey band The Gaslight Anthem.
- there are multiple references to the novel in the 80s series Beauty and the Beast
- The character, Miss Havisham, is referenced in the movie, P.S. I Love You
as well as in the show The Secret Life of the American Teenager Season 2, Episode 3
- The house in Sunset Blvd is referred to as being similar to Ms. Havisham's.
- 2009 Great Expectations wins first place in the UIL One-act play 4A conference by Friendswood High school
See also
- Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist
- Hard Times
- A Christmas Carol
- Tale Of Two Cities
References
- How Great Expectations
- Great Expectations Critical Overview
- Meckier, Jerome ''Dating the Action in Great Expectations: A New Chronology.''
- http://crossref-it.info/textguide/Great-Expectations/5/510
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