Great Expectations is Charles Dickens&#39;s thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip.&nbsp;<br />Collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens, the novel represents Dickens&#39; peak and maturity as an author.