\'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 va.... \'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 va...