Great Expectations

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is one of the great coming-of-age novels in English literature: a rich story of ambition, shame, love, class, and moral awakening. Pip is an orphan raised by his sister and her kind blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery. After a frightening encounter with an escaped convict on the marshes and later an invitation to the decaying house of the mysterious Miss Havish...