Great Expectation (Student Edition): Original and Unabridged (Paperback)

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 ken1952

I began this amazing novel on the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth and finished it 12 days later. Time for a celebration! Perhaps I'll have a piece of stale wedding cake as long as the cobwebs have been removed. Can't say I picked up on every moment of the novel, but I was still fascin...

from AJBraithwaite

I can't believe it's taken me this long to get round to reading this book. Very glad I did. Not such a huge cast of characters as some of Dicken's other books, which made it a relatively quick read. Enjoyed everything except the very end of it - and was then intrigued to read in the Appendix that...

from Rosenstern

A book about a young orphan, taken in by his aunt, then whisked off into the world of the upper class. Pip's meeting with a criminal jars him into a plot that has rather great expectations for him. Will he fulfill said expectations? Read the book, this is a review saying it was worth it. PS- once...