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Great Expectations (Signature Classics)
Charles Dickens is unmatched in literary quality, and while it’s hard to choose a single one as his quintessential work, you can’t go wrong with Great Expectations. In typical Dickens fashion, the story revolves around a young orphan boy and offers a scathing indictment of wealth and class that is still relevant today. Despite being layered in complex character and interwoven plot, Dickens’ humor and seamless prose makes every narrative easy to get lost in.
Pip is a poor orphan, a boy with “no expectations” being raised by his unkind sister and her husband in a small home on the marshes of Kent. But when Pip meets the bizarre Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward, Estella, he starts to yearn for a life as a gentleman. However, Pip will discover that wealth and honesty do not go hand in hand, and that kindness can be found in the most surprising places. A love story, a mystery, and a sharp critique of upper-class English society, Great Expectat...