Great Expectations : (Charles Dickens Classics Collection) (Paperback)

from Smiler69

"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip." - First words, Chapter I "My sister, Mrs Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than...

from Cecrow

While many things happen, at its core this is the most straightforward plot that Dickens has mustered since the Curiosity Shop. Young Pip is destined for a lowly life as a blacksmith's apprentice, until he is introduced to Miss Havisham and her ward. Shortly afterward he comes into a bit of prope...

from claidheamdanns

Great job of narration by Simon Vance! I liked the story all the way up until the end. I very much disliked how Dickens ended the story.

from zibilee

Pip is a young orphan living with his austere sister and her gentle blacksmith husband, Joe. Though his sister badgers and throttles him mercilessly, Pip finds affection, acceptance and a measure of happiness in the love of Joe and in the routine of his life. Pip lives an ordinary and simple life...

from RebeccaAnn

Wow. Just...wow. I can't even begin to explain how good this book was. But I'll try :P For those who don't know the basic story, Pip is an orphan raised by his sister and her husband. One day at the age of seven, as he discovers the graves of his dead parents and siblings, he is threatened by a c...