Great Expectations is Charles Dickens' thirteenth book. It is his subsequent novel, after David Copperfield, to be completely described in the principal individual. Incredible Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a transitioning novel, and it is an exemplary work of Victorian writing. It portrays the development and self-improvement of a vagrant named Pip. The novel was first distributed in sequential structure in Dickens' week after week periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861.
