Great Expectations

From the agony of Charles DickensΓÇÖ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a profound novel of spellbinding mystery… An orphan living with his older sister and her kindly husband,Pip is hired by wealthy and embittered Miss Havisham as a companion for her and her beautiful adopted daughterEstella. His years in service to the Havishams fill his heart with the desire to rise above his station in life. PipΓÇÖs wish is fulfilled when a mysterious benefactor provides him with ΓÇ£great expectationsΓÇ¥ΓÇöthe means to be tutored as a gentleman. Thrust into LondonΓÇÖs high-society circlesPip grows accustomed to a life of leisureonly to find himself lacking as a suitor competing for EstellaΓÇÖs favor. After callously discarding everything he once valued for his own selfish pursuitsPip learns the identity of his patronΓÇöa revelation that shatters his very soul. With an Introduction by Stanley Weintraub and an Afterword by Annabel Davis-Goff