Great Expectations (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved | essential classics.‘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.’An orphan destined for a life of misery and poverty | Pip does not have much in the way of expectations. Only when he begins to visit a rich old woman | Miss Havisham | does he begin to hope for better. When Pip discovers that he has inherited a large sum of money on the condition that he move to London to live the life of a gentleman | Pip takes his chance to leave behind the world he knows and embark upon a new adventure.An illuminating tale of intrigue | fortune and unattainable love | Great Expectations has a cast of memorable characters | and is one of Dickens’ most enduring and popular novels.