Great Expectations: With 25 Illustrations and a Free Online Audio File.

Great Expectations: With 25 Illustrations and a Free Online Audio File.

By Charles Dickens

This classic tale describes the life of an orphan called Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has "great expectations" of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He starts to live the extravagant lifestyle of a gentleman, and gradually sheds the links with the people of his past – Joe (the blacksmith) and Biddy (a level-headed young lady). He throws his money at improving the prospects of his roommate and friend Herbert, and at a woman whose heart will never respond in kind. But then an escaped convict from his distant past comes calling, and all Pip's hopes dissolve.

Great Expectations is regarded as one of Charles Dickens greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times.

Highlights of this edition are:

• 25 illustrations and photos.
• A free web links to the full-length audio recording of the book – to either listen to online, or download.
• It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your nook reader.
• An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the nook menu.
• Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with nook's Text-to-Speech features.
• Plus, about the Authors section.
• 852 pages (in the nook format) for a very low price.

This book is unabridged and the story appears as it was first published in 1860.