As a boy, Pip Pirrip helps escaped convict Magwitch. Later, to his surprise, he is chosen as a companion to Estelle, the adopted niece of the eccentric Miss Havisham. Some years later Pip finds himself very suddenly elevated from blacksmith's apprentice to a young man of means, with a very good education in view and no clue as to who his mysterious benefactor may be. Filled with wonderful Dickens characters: Joe Gadgery, the simple blacksmith, the mad Miss Havisham clad in the tatters of her wedding gown amid the ruin of her once-grand house, the sinister convict Magwitch, the perpetually upbeat Samuel Pockets and Samuel's equally upbeat Aged Parent. This edition that contains the two endings that Dickens had determined for Pip.