GREAT EXPECTATIONS（ISBN=9780679405795）

　　(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) One of Charles Dickens's most fascinating novels, "Great Expectations" follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. From the young Pip's first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham's mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, "Great Expectations" is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide. Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist's bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions. This edition includes Dickens's original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.

　　Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of England's greatest writers. Best known for his classic serialized novels, such as "Oliver Twist", "A Tale of Two Cities", and "Great Expectations", Dickens wrote about the London he lived in, the conditions of the poor, and the growing tensions between the classes. He achieved critical and popular international success in his lifetime and was honored with burial in Westminster Abbey.
　　Simon Vance is a prolific and popular audiobook narrator and actor with several hundred audiobooks to his credit. An Audie(R) Award-winner, Vance was recently named "The Voice of Choice" by "Booklist" magazine.

Introduction
Select Bibliography
Chronology
List of Characters
List of Illustrations
The First Stage of Pip's Expectations
CHAPTERS I TO XIX
The Second Stage of Pip's Expectations
CHAPTERS XX TO XXXIX
The Third Stage of Pip's Expectations
CHAPTERS XL TO LIX
Appendix 1: The Cancelled Conclusion
Appendix 2: Introduction to theoriginal
Everyman edition by G. K. Chesterton.