Great Expectations (Wordsworth Classics)

 Meeting an escaped convict in a deserted graveyard changes young Pip's life in ways he can't imagine. As he encounters the bitter, jilted Miss Havisham, falls in love with beautiful but cold Estella, and befriends the loyal Herbert Pocket, Pip grows from a lowly boy into a gentleman and learns that it's more important to be true to himself. An instant hit upon publication, Great Expectations explores the themes prevalent in so much of Dickens' work - wealth and poverty, love and hate, distinctions of class, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil - and wraps them around the life of a boy as he grows up, matures and learns what it means to be a good man.