


Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. Charles Dickens: Hard Times (321 pages) Great Expectations at Wikisource. Typically for Lessing, her shortest novel resists classification, but it could be described as a horror story about childrearing, in which the titular fifth child turns a family’s “perfect” life upside down. She’s a Nobel Prize winner, after all.It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman a coming-of-age story ). Charles dickens novels Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel.
