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Great Expectations was a great popular success with the reading public from its very first appearance on 1 December 1860, as the main serial story in Dickens’s own weekly journal All The Year Round. The circulation of the periodical had been falling during the summer of 1860 due to the lack of success of Charles Lever’s serial A Day’s Ride, but when Great Expectations began to appear circulation improved, and sales settled down to about 100 000 copies a week.
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© 1985 Dennis Butts
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Butts, D. (1985). Critical Reception. In: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07478-5_6
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