Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens, which depicts the education, childhood and young adult years of an orphan nicknamed Pip, a blacksmith's apprentice, in a country village. He suddenly comes into a large fortune (his great expectations) from a mysterious benefactor and moves to London where he enters high society. It is a coming-of-age story of fortunes lost and found, partly because of the character of Miss Havisham, the jilted bride rotting away in her wedding dress.