Great Expectations
A boy's ambitions collide with love, class, and conscience on his path to identity.
About this book
Great Expectations follows Pip, a tender-hearted orphan whose sudden brush with fortune ignites a restless hunger for gentility, love, and social standing. Whisked from the marshes to the moral fog of Victorian London by a mysterious benefactor, he becomes entangled with the eccentric, time-frozen Miss Havisham and the exquisitely unattainable Estella, whose coldness both fuels and tortures his ambitions. Dickens blends biting social satire, unforgettable characters, and acute psychological insight into an atmospheric, propulsive story about the costs of aspiration, the stubborn pull of conscience, and how compassion and regret can unexpectedly reshape a life.