Great Expectations out Monday on DVD and Blu-ray – Charles Dickens Facts
Young orphan Pip is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Moving through London’s class ridden world as a gentleman, Pip uses his new found position to pursue the beautiful Estella; a spoilt heiress he’s loved since childhood. Yet the shocking truth behind his great fortune will have devastating consequences for everything he holds dear. Starring an award-winning cast, this British tour de force is directed by the BAFTA winning director of Four Weddings and A Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mike Newell, and has been written for the big screen by David Nicholls, the acclaimed writer of the global best seller One Day. This adaptation of Dickens’ finest novel is produced by award winning partners at Number 9 Films, Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley (Made in Dagenham, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, The Crying Game)...
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| Dickens came up with the name Magwitch in 1855 – five year before he started GE The novel was originally designed to be published in monthly instalments but changed it to weekly publication. It was published over 36 instalments. It was published in Dickens’s own popular magazine All the Year Round, a family-friendly publication edited and run by the author. His only other novel published in this magazine was A Tale of Two Cities Dickens adapted the story for his famous public readings but it was never performed The novel is the only one in which Dickens did not collaborate with an artist from the outset, as both the serial and first edition publication were not illustrated The graveyard in the opening scene has been identified as one in Cooling, Kent, near Dickens’s home 100,000 copies were sold weekly while Great Expectations was published. In addition, some 42,000 readers borrowed the novel from the lending library |
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| Charles Dickens: Wrote 15 novels Wanted to be an actor and in later life gave performances from his own works Owned and ran his own magazine in which Great Expectations appeared – in it he also published Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White and The Moonstone Met Queen Victoria just months before his death Survived one of the UK’s worst rail crashes which occoured exactly 5 years before his death on 9 June 1865 (he died on the same day in 1870) His first novel The Pickwick Papers was one of the biggest publishing sensation in the 19th century From 1835-1836 Dickens lived in Furnival’s Inn which is opposite Barnard’s Inn – where Pip lives with Herbert Charles Dickens Museum: He wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby in this house and confirmed his status as the world’s most famous writer Shows rooms as Dickens would have seen them with original furniture, objects and literary manuscripts and books |
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| Great Expectations Film Page | Great Expectations Review GREAT EXPECTATIONS COMES TO BLU-RAY AND DVD ON MONDAY
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