“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden
Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly
Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in
print.” –The New York Times
FANTASTIC MR.
FANTASTIC MR.
The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped convict
on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of
Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the
prelude to his “great expectations.” How Pip comes into
a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his
secret benefactor are the ingredients of his struggle for moral
redemption.
