title: Great Expectations
author:  Charles Dickens 
description: Grade 7 Up-Charles Dickens' coming-of-age novel is read by talented John Lee with a wonderful, resonant, bass voice. His extremely precise enunciation makes it very easy to understand his slight British accent. Reading at a slightly fast pace keeps the story moving quickly so that it does not bog down in long descriptive passages. But he knows when to slow down or pause if the story calls for it. Lee's expressive voice changes accents and tones for different male characters, but fewer changes are made for female ones. It is easy to hear the difference in speech between Pip's uneducated beginning and the prim, proper, and haughty upper class to which he moves. Lee is also effective at placing emphasis on special words or drawing out syllables to give them more importance in the speech. Both the original ending and a second ending that Dickens wrote later are given. An excellent choice to assist students reading the original novel.<br /><i>Claudia Moore, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA</i><br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  For Phoebe Pearl
  
  “So,” said Estella, “I must be taken as I have been
  made. The success is not mine, the failure is not
  mine, but the two together make me.”
  –CHARLES DICKENS, GREAT EXPECTATIONS
  
  PART ONE
  Sweet and Sour
  
  JULES
  The man in the suit was watching me again.
  It was March of my senior year in college, a clear, chilly afternoon,
  when I felt what was, by then, the familiar weight of a man’s gaze, while I
  sat by myself in the food court. I looked up from my dinner, and there he
  was, at the end of the line for the salad place, looking