Which Dickens novel begins with the line 'My father's family name being Pirrip'?

The Dickens novel that begins with “My father’s family name being Pirrip” is Great Expectations. The narrator soon explains that his full name is Philip Pirrip, though his childhood pronunciation reduces it to the nickname Pip.

Pip is an orphan raised in Kent by his severe older sister and her kindly husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. The opening establishes Pip’s relationship with the family graves, the landscape of the marshes and the frightening encounter with an escaped convict. These early events shape his guilt, ambition and desire to rise above his humble background.

Great Expectations follows Pip through three broad stages as he moves from village life to London gentility and then toward moral self-knowledge. A common mistake is attributing the opening to David Copperfield, another Dickens novel narrated in the first person. The Pickwick Papers begins Dickens’s career as a comic episodic novel, while Oliver Twist opens with an account of Oliver’s birth and orphaned circumstances.