Great Expectations

Published in 1861

Categories: For TeensClassics for Adults

Young Pip stands by a table in a candlelit room, looking up at Miss Havisham in her white wedding dress and veil
Illustration: Marcus Stone (1862)

Pip is an orphan boy raised by his hard sister and her gentle husband, the blacksmith Joe. One evening in the marshes an escaped convict seizes him and demands food. Soon afterwards Pip is sent to play at the house of Miss Havisham, who still wears the wedding dress she was jilted in, and falls in love with her proud ward Estella. Then a lawyer arrives with news: an unknown benefactor will make Pip a gentleman. Charles Dickens's 1861 novel is the story of what that money does to him.

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