Great Expectations
Book Details
Looky Rating System Score adjusted for ages 13+
Content Intensity
How strong or frequent is this content? Higher scores mean more intense content.
Story Themes
What is this book about? Higher scores mean the theme is more central to the plot — not a warning.
Description
<b>Introduction by John Irving • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br>Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor. Full of unforgettable characters—including a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, <i>Great Expectations</i> is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can’t buy. “<i>Great Expectations</i> has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,” according to John Irving, and J. Hillis Miller declares, “<i>Great Expectations</i> is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens’s abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.”
Themes & Topics
Based on the book description, categories, and metadata — not verified against the full text.
How our ratings work →Book has been rated by our custom AI. We do our best to provide accurate information, but we know sometimes we may have missed something. If you feel we missed our mark on a rating, please suggest a correction so we can review the book independently of any publisher relationship.