Great Expectations: With 25 Illustrations and a Free Online Audio File

This classic tale describes the life of an orphan called Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has "great expectations" of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He starts to live the extravagant lifestyle of a gentleman and gradually sheds the links with the people of his past Joe (the blacksmith) and Biddy (a level-headed young lady). He throws his money at improving the prospects of his roommate and friend Herbert, and at a woman whose heart will never respond in kind. But then an escaped convict from his distant past comes calling, and all Pip's hopes dissolve.

Great Expectations is regarded as one of Charles Dickens greatest and most sophisticated novels and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times.

This book is unabridged and the story appears as it was first published in 1860.

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