Philip "Pip" Pirrip, longtime companion of the 10th grade, an orphan with ambition and a deep conscience, in love with the brittle Estella, confused by Miss Havisham. Pip, who so many people met in ...

THE LOCAL churchyard seems an unlikely sanctuary for a young boy but when your tyrannical sister, some twenty years your elder, has grudgingly reared you "by hand", there is some comfort to be had ...

If you have any expectations for “Great Expectations,” you’re best off abandoning them early. This brightly lacquered fiasco, a modern version of Charles Dickens’ great novel of 19th Century poverty ...

1. As heroes go, there is nothing very heroic about Pip Pirrip, who narrates Dickens’s 13th novel. Brought up as an orphan in the marshlands of Kent, he becomes nothing less than a mean-spirited snob ...

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called ...

The BBC's latest adaptation of Great Expectations, which has been created by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, was lambasted by Richard Madeley on Wednesday's instalment of Good Morning Britain.