Great Expectations

Great Expectations was a novel written by Charles Dickens. (TV: The Unquiet Dead) It was described as "haunting", depicting the personal development of an orphan named Pip as he discovered the true nature of his 'great expectations'. By the 21st century it was considered a literary classic. (TV: The Empty Planet)

Plot
"It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me."

- An extract from Great Expectations

The novel followed the story of an orphan called Pip who, following an encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the Kent marshes, was summoned to meet Miss Havisham and her ward Estella. He abandoned his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman, changing his life forever. (TV: The Empty Planet)