Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

One of Charles Dickens's most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and
poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of
a gentleman.

From young Pip's first terrifying encounter with
the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly
morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham's mansion to the magnificently
realized boat chase down the Thames, the novel is filled with the
transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide.
Written in 1860 at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the
novelist's bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest
moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.