Great Expectations
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

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Movie or TV Productions

Great Expectations (1946)

This film won two Oscars.

Great Expectations (1934)

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

Great Expectations (1998)

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.

Great Expectations (1917)

A silent film production of the novel.

Great Expectations (1922)

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

Great Expectations (1999)

A Masterpiece Theater TV series production

Great Expectations (1975)

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

Audio

Great Expectations-Audio Style

Download an audio version of the novel.

The Dickensian Effect

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.

Great Expectations Audiobook SPONSORED

Purchase and download the Audiobook from Random House Audio

Images

A Portrait of Charles Dickens

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

And You Thought Your Summer Job Sucked

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

Together At Last

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

Documents

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

Other

A Map of Dickensian London

Figure out where the hey you are.

A Dickens Timeline

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

A Dickensian Character Library

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

The Atlantic Monthly Review of Great Expectations in 1861

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

"The Public and Private Life of Charles Dickens," an Atlantic Monthly Article

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

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