Title: Charles Dickens' Great expectations
Description: Pip, a young orphan, has his life altered irrevocably by a strange chain of events - a terrifying graveside encounter with an escaped prisoner; a visit to a black-hearted old woman and a beautiful girl; an unexpected fortune from a secret donor. Escaping his poor background for London, however, he finds that he cannot run away from who he really is.
Subjects: Orphans, Juvenile fiction, Benefactors, Social conditions, Children's fiction, England, fiction
Places: England
Time periods: 19th century