![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His stories worked in pieces and as a cohesive whole-not an easy task. Dickens was a master of the serialized novel, writing segments full of cliff-hangers and nail-biting action, while remaining true to the novel's overall storyline. People waited anxiously every week for the next "episode" to arrive in the newsstands and on the shelves-and you can see why. With two chapters every week, Great Expectations (and other serialized novels like it) were as close as Victorian England got to Breaking Bad or Mad Men. The story of a young blacksmith boy Pip and his two dreams-becoming a gentleman and marrying the beautiful Estella- Great Expectations was serialized from Decemuntil August 3, 1861. No, it's not the opening of a TV crime drama (although it could be)-it's the beginning of one of Charles Dickens' most famous novels: Great Expectations. One cold and misty evening, a little boy meets an escaped criminal on the marshes near England's coast. ![]()
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