Great Expecations is a Dicken's novel about a young boy (Pip) who falls in love with the wrong girl (Estella) and spends the rest of his life trying to make up for it.
Pip starts off as a poor boy in a backwater area of Britain. After a mysterious encounter with a convict(in which he feeds the convict and the convict takes pity on him), he is given a great sum of money by a mysterious patron, who he believes is an old eccentric lady, for whom he has spent the last few years taking care of. As part of his agreement in taking the money from the patron, he must not ask who gave him the money, change his name from Pip, and he moves to London to be educated. While he was taking care of the old lady, he fell in love with the cold-hearted Estella, and this love affair haunts him in London as well.