Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

MEETING INFORMATION
Date: June 12, 2024
Facilitator: Kristin

BOOK INFORMATION
Title: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Genre: Fiction - Coming-of-Age
Publication Year: 1861
Approximate Page Count: 544
Summary: This novel depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwich. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery — poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death — and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe Gargery, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil.
Suggested by: Gene