Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1917 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-13
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Synopsis
Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart when he finds an escaped criminal, is summoned to visit a mysterious old woman and meets the icy beauty Estella. Most astoundingly of all, an anonymous person gives him money to begin a new life in London. Are these events as random as they seem? Or does Pip's fate hang on a series of coincidences he could never have expected?

From the Publisher
Great Expectations opens unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes.

There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and 'great expectations', and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dicken's best-loved novels.

In Great Expectations Dickens blends gripping drama with penetrating satire to give a compelling story rich in comedy and pathos: he has also created two of his finest, most haunting characters in Pip and Miss Havisham.

Customer Reviews

One of the six truly great Dickens novels
Unforgettable - watch the great David Lean film, then read this, or vice versa - you will not be disappointed!

Highly enjoyable
A really enjoyable read. By the end I felt completely immersed within the story, and anxious to discover Pip's fate. The book has some very touching moments, and shows that there is no pure good, no pure evil, but a lot of in between. I read many novels and can usually guess at whats coming, but I must say I did not see many of the twists and turns of the book (I won't give them away!). The characters are very deep, from the eccentric miss havisham, the icy beauty estella, the friendly herbert, and loyal Joe. I have enjoyed every moment and it is firmly established as one of my favorites

Twists and turns galore
Pip- the protagonist in the novel comes into "great expectations" through an unknown benefactor who Pip and the reader are lead to believe is Miss Havisham. I like the way Dicken's makes Pip not an especially nice charather in the way he deals with his family after he gets influenced by money.