Read Great Expectations

Dickens' favourite child, from a blacking factory to a writer's desk; Micawber and Uriah Heep.

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

Please, sir, I want some more; Fagin, the Artful Dodger and Bill Sikes.

A lawsuit that outlives everyone in it, and the fog over Chancery; Dickens' biggest novel.

A 15-year-old with Asperger's investigates a dead poodle and finds out about his mother.

A miner's son in Nottinghamshire, his mother and the women he cannot love; Lawrence's autobiography.

Becky Sharp climbs through Regency society without a heart; a novel without a hero.

A portrait ages while its subject sins; Wilde's only novel.