his love for Estella - she is of a higher social class and he feels unworthy of her and therefore wishes to improve himself coming into money - this allows him to move upwards in society and ...

Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife "Mrs. Joe". When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under ...

Since 1861, Great Expectations has been printed with illustrations many ... on the advice of his friend and fellow novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. With the original ending, Pip meets Estella on the ...

What came to mind was English writer Charles Dickens’ coming-of-age novel Great Expectations. The story follows the life of a poor orphan named Pip, who dreams of becoming rich. His dream comes ...

We certainly have Great ... Expectations, which is already shaping up to be a gritty period drama. If you’re not familiar, Dickens’ 1860 coming-of-age tale is about an orphan named Pip ...

Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella.