The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views -- George Bernard Shaw on the unamiable Estella and Pip as function of class snobbery -- George Orwell on Magwitch and the Pantomime of the wicked uncle -- Peter Brooks on the beginning and ending: Pip before plot and beyond plot -- Dorothy Van Ghent on the century of progress, Dickens's use of the pathetic fallacy, and Pip's "Identity of Things" -- Julian Moynahan on Pip's aggressive ambition and the Dark doubles Orlick and Drummle -- Goldie Morgentaler on Darwin and money as determinant -- Christopher D. Morris on narration and Pip's moral bad faith -- Joseph A. Hynes on star, garden, and firelight imagery -- Ann B. Dobie on surrealism and stream-of-consciousness -- Nina Auerbach on Dickens and the evolution of the eighteenth-century orphan -- Stephen Newman on Jaggers and Wemmick: Two windows on little Britain -- Jay Clayton on Great Expectations as a foreshadowing of postmodernism -- Edward W. Said on Australia, British Imperialism, and Dickens's Victorian businessmen -- Works by Charles Dickens.;Presents an overview of the novel, featuring a biographical sketch of the English author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.
