Great Expectations Resources

This film won two Oscars.

This film stars Phillips Holmes as Pip and Jane Wyatt as Estella.

This version stars Ethan Hawke as Pip and Gwyneth Paltrow as Estella. The director of this adaptation, Alfonso Cuarón, also directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

A silent film production of the novel.

A version made in Finland! Impress your friends: apparently "Store Forventninger" is Finnish for "Great Expectations."

A Masterpiece Theater TV series production

Watch clips from this version, made for American TV. It was originally produced as a musical, but all the songs were ultimately taken out.

A South Park Episode (Season 4, Episode 14) reinterprets this classic.

Download an audio version of the novel.

In an interview with National Public Radio, American novelist John Irving (author of the Cider House Rules) talks about Dickens's influence on him, and how Dickens would have been a great screenwriter.

Dickens as a boy in the blacking factory, as imagined by an illustrator from 1904.

The label of the boot-blacking product whose factory Dickens worked in at age 12.

The happy ending version of Pip and Estella’s relationship.

Here you can read Dickens’s letters and a number of other primary and secondary texts.

Figure out where the hey you are.

Learn more about Dickens, when he lived, and what he wrote.

Can’t remember who in the Avenger is? Here is a comprehensive resource documenting each of Dickens's (many) characters.

It’s true, folks. Here’s an original review of Great Expectations.

Dickens had 10 children and a mistress (who was an actress). Check it out.