Great Expectations (Annotated Edition)

Pip lives with his abusive older sister and her kind husband Joe Gargery in the Kent marshes. One day, Pip visits the elderly Miss Havisham, a bitter old woman who teaches her adopted daughter Estella to break men's hearts. Pip quickly falls in love with Estella.Pip visits Miss Havisham every other day and walks her around the banquet table. She pays for him to be a blacksmith's apprentice. He's unhappy with the work, however, and, when a lawyer reveals that Pip has inherited a fortune from an anonymous benefactor, the young man moves to London to become a gentleman.