Great Expectations

Great Expectations 

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round^[1] from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times.

This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has "great expectations" of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his associations with the gentle souls of his past, Joe (the blacksmith) and Biddy (a level-headed young lady).