Great Expectations - Large Print Author:Charles Dickens Considered by critics to be among Dickens' best-constructed stories, GREAT EXPECTATIONS deals with a major theme of the Victorian social novel: the hero's movement upward through the class structure. Pip, an orphan, helps an escaped prisoner hiding in a marsh. Miss Havisham, an eccentric recluse, is deserted on her wedding day. From thes... more »e two events, Dickens weaves an unusual story of gratitude set on by vindictiveness.« less