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Originally published in serial form from December 1860 to August 1861, Great Expectations is the âautobiographyâ of Pip, as he transformed from apprentice village blacksmith to a London gentleman. Unlike many of Dickensâs earlier works, the novel is not so much a protest against social evils as a sustained mediation upon the process of social reform in Victorian England. It is this which gives such importance to the bookâs handling of the theme of the gentleman, a theme central both to Dickensâs society and to his own life story. |
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