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Great Expectations
Great Expectations on line, courtesy of Literature.org.
Great Expectations Study Questions
There's plenty of Dickens information on the web. The University of California's Dickens Project has a easy-to-read chronolgy of Dickens's life and work.
The Dickens section on the Victorian Web, a site devoted to all things related Victorian society, has much to offer on Dickens's world, themes, concerns, and, of course, his works.
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page is a terrific site on all things Dickens, including, of course, pages for all of his novels.
The Dickens Page, by Mitsuharu Matsuoka of Nagoya Japan, is full of information, with many links, among the most interesting being a hyper-concordance, which is an index for words, phrases, or names found in a single work.
Take a virtual tour of Charles Dickens Museum, in London.
Background to the Novel
The novel appeared in serialized weekly installments from December 1, 1860, until August 3, 1861, in Dickens's own periodical devoted to fiction, All Year Round.
Take a look at John McLenan's illustrations from the Harper's Weekly installments in its America publication, also serialized, around the same time.
Study Guide Help
[a note for using study guides--SparkNotes and other summary sites are of course properly used after you've� read a section or the entire work independently.� My advice is for you to be cautious with these sites and try to stay away from them until after you've been able to think things through about the novel on your own.]
Please visit Andrew Moore's Great Expectations Study Guide, at UniversalTeacher.org. This has thoughts on important themes, in addition to info on characters and plot events.
Bellmore-Merrick School District in New York also has a useful page, with short background notes, characters, and a list of key themes and issues.
See some more study questions at David Stone's Great Expectations page. Mr. Stone is an English teacher at Warren High in California.
Literary Criticism
Victorian Web has some links to criticism, but your best bet is to use JSTOR from the school library link, with the password and username.