Great Expectations Foreword
Great Expectations is a bildungsroman set in nineteenth century England, written by Charles Dickens as his thirteenth novel in 1860 and published in 1861. Dickens initially had his novel published as a serial in his weekly periodical All the Year Round, and his success grew after his fourth publishment from four hundred sales, to forty thousand copies per month. After learning that Dickens had his work published in All the Year Round , I felt an attachment to him. It had come to me that he was not simply a novelist, rather a revolutionist for the poor. His publishing method was inspiring, not only was it of intelligence, through the foreboding nature of the novel to entice mass readers, but more so how he crafted it to be easily accessible to those who may have not usually had the opportunity to enjoy the entertainments of literature. He had his work published in the newspaper through his awareness that it could reach the masses, as well as provide entertainment for the lower cl...