Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
First published in book form: 1861
Pages: 672 pages (Barnes & Noble edition)
Structure: 59 chapters in three stages
How do our hopes affect the course of our lives? Can our “Expectations” change who we become? What happens when those hopes are dashed?
Great Expectations answers these questions through Pip, who tells us his life story, from his earliest memories as an orphan living with his sister and her blacksmith husband, Joe, on the North Kent marshes near the mouth of the Thames in nineteenth-century England.