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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
Great Expectations is a 1946 British drama film directed by David Lean, based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills and Valerie Hobson.The supporting cast included Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Anthony Wager, Jean Simmons, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness.
Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life.
The first is the menace that forever surrounds the lives of the respectable from the very existence of a criminal friend or relative at large – this is the fate of Mrs Rudge, the dark secret of David Copperfield's aunt, Betsy Trotwood, the strange tension of Mrs Clennam's tomb-like home in Little Dorrit, the central situation of Great ...
COMMENT: ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight’s take on the Charles Dickens classic premieres on the BBC this weekend, following adaptations by Alfonso Cuarón and Mike Newell. But does ...
Compeyson is the main antagonist of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations, a 'George Wickham'-esque man, whose criminal activities harmed two people, who in turn shaped much of protagonist Pip's life. [1] Compeyson abandoned Miss Havisham at the altar, and later got Abel Magwitch arrested.
John Wemmick is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations.He is Mr Jaggers's clerk and the protagonist Pip's friend. [1] Some scholars consider him to be the "most modern man in the book".
Great Expectations is a 2012 British-American film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Mike Newell , with the adapted screenplay by David Nicholls , and stars Jeremy Irvine , Helena Bonham Carter , Holliday Grainger , Ralph Fiennes and Robbie Coltrane .