Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Pip, an orphan raised “by hand” by his sister and the blacksmith Joe Gargery on the Kent marshes, is suddenly given great expectations by an unknown benefactor. From the convict Magwitch and the jilted Miss Havisham to the cold, beautiful Estella, Dickens traces Pip’s ambition, snobbery and hard-won return to what truly matters.