Great Expectations | Great Expectations

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Author: Charles Dickens
First Published: 1860
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Sensation novel
Subjects: Genealogy, Love or romance, Crime or criminals, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Mistaken or secret identity, Friendship, Hope, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Duty, Lower classes, Money, Identity, Orphans or orphanages, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Blacksmithing or blacksmiths
Locales: London, England

*River Thames (tehmz). River in southern England that runs through London to the North Sea. Several places that figure in the novel stand along the river. Some eight miles to the west of London lies Richmond, on the river’s south bank, a stylish town in Surrey. After her “finishing school,” Estella comes to live here in Mrs. Brandley’s house on Richmond Green, to be introduced into fashionable London society, to continue to break men’s hearts. It is thus an extension of Satis House as a locus for Miss Havisham’s revenge.

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