Charles Dickens' most beautiful and mature novel is now available in a brilliant new translation. The orphan boy Pip learns the trade of a blacksmith, then an unknown benefactor provides him with a fortune so that he can be educated as a gentleman in London. It is a story about childhood and growing up, about the rich and the poor, about the wise and the foolish, about good and evil. Melanie Walz has perfectly captured Dickens' distinctive, slightly ironic tone in her new translation. In the afterword, she explains the history of the book's creation.