Great Expectations

Magwitch lurking in a marsh graveyard, Miss Havisham mouldering beside her untouched wedding cake, the haughty Estella playing cards, Jaggers washing his hands. Great Expectations is full of memorable images: Dickens called it a ''grotesque tragi-comic conception''. The story follows the transformation of the humble Pip into a London gentleman, with great but mysterious expectations.A new Faber Classics edition of Dickens''s Gothic fairy tale.