Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens
I discovered this marvelous novel when I was 14, and I can still recall the pleasure of sitting in the classroom at Redemptorist High in New Orleans reading about Pip and his adventures in our big, thick textbook or reader. Not a year goes by that I don't return to this novel, to refresh my sense of it, to marvel at how Dickens uses the first-person voice to tell us more about Pip than Pip knows about himself.