Great Expectations

Charles Dickens's (1812-1870) novel Great Expectations, published week after week in the magazine Domashnee Chtenie from December 1860 to August 1861 and released as a separate edition the same year, is still popular all over the world. Translations into all languages, numerous film adaptations dating back to 1917, productions and even a cartoon... "Great Expectations" turned out to be the most integral of all Dickens' works, clear in form, with a plot that reconciles depth of thought with remarkable simplicity of presentation," wrote the famous English novelist and Dickens researcher Angus Wilson. Rarely does any reader or viewer of Great Expectations - even in Russia, which is so different from Victorian England - not try on the story of an ordinary boy Pip, who by the will of fate turns into a gentleman and is conquered for life by the cold beauty Estella. Deep insight into the inner world, into human psychology, a fascinating plot, a fair amount of humor - there is no doubt that this famous book will always be read and reread. Accompanying article by Leonid Bakhnov Leonid Vladlenovich Bakhnov (born 1948) is a prose writer and critic. He graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. He worked at Uchitelskaya Gazeta, Literaturnoye Obozreniye, and Izvestia. From 1988 to 2017, he was in charge of the prose department at Druzhba Narodov magazine. Member of the Moscow Writers' Union, member of the Academy of Russian Contemporary Literature (ARS'S).