Great Expectations

Synopsis

'his novels will endure as long as the language itself' peter ackroyddickens's haunting late novel depicts the education and development of a young man, pip, as his life is changed by a series of events - a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying miss havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - and he discovers the true nature of his 'great expectations'.