Great Expectations (1998 film) Great Expectations (1998 film) Great Expectations is a 1998 contemporary film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name, co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Robert De Niro, Anne Bancroft and Chris Cooper. It is known for having moved the setting of the original novel from 1812-1827 London to 1990s New York. The film is an abridged modernization of Dickens's 1861 novel, with the hero's name having also been changed from Pip to Finn, and the character Miss Havisham has been renamed Nora Dinsmoor. The film received mixed reviews. Ten-year-old
Great Expectations 1861 in the UK. "Harper's" paid £1,000 for publication rights. Dickens welcomed a contract with "Tauchnitz" 4 January 1861 for publication in English for the European continent. Publications in "Harper's Weekly" were accompanied by forty illustrations by John McLenan; however, this is the only Dickens work published in "All the Year Round" without illustrations. Robert L Patten identifies four American editions in 1861 and sees the proliferation of publications in Europe and across the Atlantic as "extraordinary testimony" to "Great Expectations"'s popularity. Chapman and Hall published the first edition in three volumes in 1861, five subsequent reprints between 6 July