Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens.
Great Expectations depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel Great Expectations was first published in serial form in Charles Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and the story genre is Victorian Literature. Great Expectations is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early-to-mid 1800s.
On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is approximately six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother and father, as well as those of his siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food for him, and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home of his abusive older sister. Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster, who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love, with Miss Havisham's encouragement.
Later, as a young apprentice at Joe Gargery's smithy, Pip is approached by a lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, who tells him he is to receive a large sum of money from an anonymous benefactor and must leave for London immediately where he is to become a gentleman. Concluding that Miss Havisham is his benefactress, he visits her and Estella... (Summary by Wikipedia)