Great Expectations is a coming-of-age novel, and a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. Set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s, The novel contains some of Dickens most memorable scenes, including its opening in a graveyard, when the young orphan Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, barriers a