Charles Dickens

Perhaps Charles Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a more promising life in London. Despite his good fortune, Pip is haunted by figures from his past— the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham, and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella— and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of...