The Day x Connell Guides - The Connell Guide to Dickens' Great Expectations

Great Expectations has been described as the most perfect of Dickens’s works. One of the best-selling Victorian novels of our time, it continues not only to be astonishingly popular but to generate huge critical debate, raising profound questions about the nature of Victorian society, the way human relationships work and the extent to which we are shaped by our childhoods. In this short guide, John Sutherland and Jolyon Connell draw on the leading critics of Great Expectations to offer a compelling and incisive interpretation of the novel. Entertaining and accessible, it is essential reading not just for students of literature but for anyone interested in Dickens’s extraordinary vision of the world.