Dickens famously changed the ending of ‘Great Expectations’ at least three times: there’s a happy ending, a downbeat ending and a thoroughly ambiguous one.  Could he just not make up his mind?  Or are the different endings (and it turns out there were rather more than just three) telling us something about the place of the novel in C19th literature?   Professor John Drew explores the humour, themes and endings of this late great novel.

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