This week, a brief introduction to Dickens, the Victorian Era, what makes Great Expectations the perfect book for this series, and Dickens’ most notorious peer.

Next week, chapters 1 to 10 of Great Expectations!

Footnotes:

• Great Expectations
  
  
• Charles Dickens
  
  
• Great Ormond Street Hospital
  
  
• Great Expectations (1998)
  
  
• Great Expectations (2012)
  

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