Published in 1860-61, Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’s most perfectly crafted novel — the story of Pip, an orphaned boy raised on the Kent marshes, who suddenly comes into a mysterious fortune and travels to London to become a gentleman, only to discover that wealth brings neither happiness nor the love he craves. The novel’s gallery of characters — the grotesque Miss Havisham, the beautiful Estella, the loyal Joe Gargery, and the convict Magwitch — are among Dickens’s finest.
Tightly plotted and psychologically acute, Great Expectations rewards rereading at every stage of life. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and meet one of Victorian fiction’s most compelling heroes.