Great Expectations

When Pip is informed that an unknown benefactor expects to make him his heir, he sets off to London to realize his "great expectations." But true gentleman stature, he will find, is a matter of character, not fortune.. There, Pip learns to despise his rough origins as Estella torments him about his low prospects. One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming of age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily

Kristi Richardson said “I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”. The story of Pip and his great expectations is a classic that I had never read before. Somehow, my class never read it in school. I have read a great many of Dicken’s works and love his writing. I decided to read it because the Literary Classics book club chose it for their . "Great Expectations-Penguin Clothbound Classics" according to Kindle Customer. For Christmas, my three children have me the entire Jane Austen collection of Penguin Classics Clothbound. Since then, I've been adding other titles to my collection and GREAT EXPECTATIONS was a no-brainer. One of my favorite books by Dickens. Well, one of my fAVORITE books, perio. WOW! This book is amazing! There are so many twists and turns that you can never get bored. The characters and settings are described with so much detail, that you feel like you are looking right at them! I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is interested in love storie