Classics
Great Expectations
Pip, a poor blacksmith's apprentice in the Kent marshes, is told by a lawyer that a mysterious benefactor will make him a gentleman. He moves to London and must reckon with the cost of his ambition.
- First published
- 1861
- Pace
- slow
- Length
- long
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you like a classic with a strong plot, memorable characters and a sharp sense of social class.
Skip this if you find nineteenth-century prose slow going.
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