\' Great Expectations is up there for me with the world\'s greatest novels\' Howard Jacobson Charles Dickens\'s Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip\'s life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance.
A terrifying encounter with the escaped convict Abel Magwitch in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decrepit Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella at Satis House; the sudden generosity of a mys. \' Great Expectations is up there for me with the world\'s greatest novels\' Howard Jacobson Charles Dickens\'s Great Expectations charts the course of orphan Pip Pirrip\'s life as it is transformed by a vast, mysterious inheritance