his love for Estella - she is of a higher social class and he feels unworthy of her and therefore wishes to improve himself coming into money - this allows him to move upwards in society and ...

Great Expectations (1861) in particular demonstrates Dickens’ ludic credentials. A sense of progression is common in the Bildungsroman or “progress” novel, but Pip seems to embody ideas of ...

Great Expectations introduced the narrator "Pip" and his story to the world, as well as other memorable characters including Joe Gargery the blacksmith, Abel Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella.

Since 1861, Great Expectations has been printed with illustrations many ... on the advice of his friend and fellow novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. With the original ending, Pip meets Estella on the ...