Great Expectations
Edition: First Tor digest edition
Publisher: Tor
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780765352002
Copyright date: 1998
Description: Young Pip knows what it's like to be down and out. Orphaned at an early age and miserably poor, Pip has learned the brutal tntth of life firsthand. Laboring as a black- smith's helper, Pip is crushed when his heart's delight cruelly rejects him for being a "commoner." Pip vows to one day move to London and become a gentleman. But how? Strangely enough, his life takes a fortunate turn when he befriends an escaped convict. It is an act of kindness that is to repay Pip many times over—especially when Pip comes of age and mysteriously inherits a great fortune.

Pip learns hard lessons in this eloquently rendered novel of life and love and the search for meaning in both.