Great Expectations (1861)
0.3691Canon Score · ranked #17 all time
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About the book
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to Au
Why it ranks #17
Every list on which Great Expectations appears, with its position as published.
| List | Authority | Position |
|---|---|---|
| The Novel 100 (Burt) | Editorial list | #16 / 100 |
| BBC Big Read Top 200 (2003) | Editorial list | #17 / 200 |
| OCLC/WorldCat Top 500 Novels (2019) | Editorial list | #17 / 500 |
| PBS Great American Read (2018) | Editorial list | #46 / 100 |
| Bokklubben World Library (2002) | Major international poll | Selected |
| Guardian 1000 Novels (2009) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| 1001 Books You Must Read (union) | Critics' canon | Selected |
| Bloom, The Western Canon (1994) | Editorial list | Selected |