Enjoyable reading material providing a rich context for language practice. Stories which have been carefully graded for each level according to vocabulary, grammatical structures, sentence length and plot complexity. Full-colour illustrations closely integrated with the text which stimulate learners and facilitate understanding. The ideal springboard for the development of learners? reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. In what may be Dickens’s best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman-and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of «great expectations. « In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters include Magwitch, the fearful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness; and the embittered Miss Havisham, an eccentric jilted bride.