Great Expectations DECODED - Charles Dickens

The complete, unabridged novel — with the guidance built in.

Every word Dickens wrote, plus a friendly walk-through before and after each chapter: what to watch for going in, and what it all meant coming out. No summaries. No spoilers. Not a substitute for reading the book — the tool that finally makes reading it work.

This book is one of the most beloved stories Charles Dickens ever wrote. He first published it in 1861, in weekly pieces, so readers met the characters a little at a time and waited anxiously for what came next. It's the life story of a poor country boy named Pip, told by Pip himself as a grown man looking back—which means the person telling you the story already knows how it all turns out, and sometimes lets that slip. It's a story about wanting to become something more than you are, and about what that wanting can cost you. Give it a real chance, and you may find that a boy from a marsh village two hundred years ago understands something true about your own life.