Charles Dickens 
Great Expectations (Illustrated) 

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’s thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. 

Collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens, the novel represents Dickens’ peak and maturity as an author.