Charles Dickens

Great Expectations Annotated Charles Dickens

A classic work of Victorian literature, Great Expectations tells the story (from a first person narrative), of young Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses both. Through this rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness. He learns the meaning of friendship and the meaning of love and, of course, becomes a better person for it.