Introduction by George Bernard Shaw Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectationsuntil he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor.

Full of unforgettable charactersincluding a terrifying convict named Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, Great Expectations is a tale of intrigue, unattainable love, and all of the happiness money can't buy. ';Great Expectations has the most wonderful and most perfectly worked-out plot for a novel in the English language,' according to John Irving, and J.

Hillis Miller declares, ';Great Expectations is the most unified and concentrated expression of Dickens's abiding sense of the world, and Pip might be called the archetypal Dickens hero.' INCLUDES A MODERN LIBRARY READING GROUP GUIDEFrom the Trade Paperback edition.