Jack Maggs (1997) is a novel by Australia writer Peter Carey.

Set in 19th century London, Jack Maggs is a retelling of Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens with Jack Maggs as a central character (instead of Abel Magwitch).

Jack Maggs was a foundling who was given in to foster care and trained to be a thief. After being betrayed, he is transported to the penal colony of New South Wales, where he does well and provides for his son in London, Henry Phipps (instead of Pip).

In 1837, Jack Maggs returns to London to find his son and becomes involved with the mesmerist and writer, Tobias Oates (loosely based on Charles Dickens).

Says Hermion Lee in her 29 September 1997 review in The Guardian:

“But this is Victorian England with a difference. Things that were suppressed or unspoken in Dickens homosexuality, illicit sexual passion, flogging of prisoners, the rape of child-prostitutes, the abortion trade are unsentimentally exposed in this rewriting, as are Dickens's colonial assumptions. Carey upends Dickens's story of the convict who makes a gentleman out of the orphan boy who once helped him…”