Folio Society: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

On the misty Kent marshes an escaped convict wrestles with his irons; in a ruined mansion a withered spinster in a yellowed wedding dress waits in vain for her bridegroom. In the hands of Abel Magwitch and the vengeful Miss Havisham lies the destiny of ‘Pip’ – a young orphan who dreams of becoming a gentleman. Great Expectations is one of Dickens’s best-loved novels, written in 1860–1, at the peak of his powers.