Great Expectations New York Times Readers' Pick:

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his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive

and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors

becoming a little too acquainted with old-timey armor

Great Expectations New York Times Readers' Pick:Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham and her