The most eventful incident in his childhood is helping a convict on the marshes escape. Joe, only marginally mollified by her simple-minded but good-hearted husband Joe. Pip starts the book as a guileless orphan who lives under the thumb of his shrewish older sister Mrs. The main character Pip is also far from the simple minded innocents of David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, and arguably has undergone the most Character Development as a result. Ironically, it is his most unconventional work Dickens deconstructed many of his trademark plots and characters in it, including the Mysterious Benefactor and Rags to Riches tale. It is one of his most famous works (along with A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, and A Tale of Two Cities), as the multitude of high school students assigned this 450+ page book will attest. Great Expectations (1861) is a novel by Charles Dickens. "Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
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