'It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me?
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor ? these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip?s life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to ...