Great Expectations

With an essay by George Bernard Shaw.

"What do you think that is?'' she asked me, again pointing with her stick; ''that, where those cobwebs are?"
"I can''t guess what it is, ma''am."
"It''s a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!"

Great Expectations, Dickens''s funny, frightening and tender portrayal of the orphan Pip''s journey of self-discovery, is one of his best-loved works. Showing how a young man''...