which I cannot call a foreword- because I am not a writer and I am inclined to believe Jacob Marley may elect to shake off his chains and give me a message from Mr. Dickens if I have the nerve to call it one.
Charles Dickens was a writer of remarkable talent. His books, many of them set in places that can only be described as a ‘Dickensian’, have proved timeless tales of humanity and our nature. Great Expectations, Dickens’ penultimate novel, is a bildungsroman (a coming-of-age story) which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.