# Great Expectations, Vol. 1

By **Charles Dickens**

- ISBN-13: 9781435171640
- Series: [Untitled](https://mybookbandits.com/series/untitled-161)
- Publisher: Union Square & Company
- Pages: 536
- Published: 7 Mar 2023
- Language: en
- Price: £18.47 (new)
- Categories: Romance, Fiction, Gothic, Victorian, Classics, Coming of age, Historical, Billionaires

## About this book

In Charles Dickens’s enduring novel Great Expectations, the first volume in the Untitled series, orphan Pip endures a bleak childhood on the Kent marshes, raised by his sharp-tempered sister and her kindly husband. A visit to the decaying mansion of Miss Havisham and her captivating ward Estella sparks his fierce desire to escape poverty and become a gentleman of means, setting him on an unexpected path into Victorian society.

This gothic coming-of-age story weaves romance, mystery, and biting historical critique as Pip navigates London’s elite billionaire class, funded by a secret benefactor. He soon discovers that wealth and moral character rarely align, and that loyalty and compassion can surface in the most surprising places. A masterwork of classic fiction, it explores ambition, identity, and the true cost of gentility.

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