<P> Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel : a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip . It is Dickens 's second novel , after David Copperfield , to be fully narrated in the first person . The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens 's weekly periodical All the Year Round , from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 . In October 1861 , Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes . </P>
<P> Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel : a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip . It is Dickens 's second novel , after David Copperfield , to be fully narrated in the first person . The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens 's weekly periodical All the Year Round , from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 . In October 1861 , Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes . </P>
when was great expectations published as a novel
when was great expectations published as a novel
October 1861
October 1861