With a hungry, timid request of `Please, sir. I want some more', orphan Oliver Twist takes his first step on a terrifying journey.

`Bah, humbug! Fools wishing me a Merry Christmas should be forced to sit on cushions stuffed with holly leaves or boiled with their own Christmas puddings.'

`You are the last man in the world I would marry.'

An escaped convict threatens to eat young Pip's heart for breakfast. The ghostly Miss Havisham invites Pip to her eerie home. A mysterious benefactor makes him suddenly wealthy. Pip's life will never be the same again.

`You must hear my tale. You must hear my terrible, terrible tale.'

`I must warn you that you might guess twenty things without guessing correctly.'

'It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.'

I saw everything. They told me everything. I played a part in everything.'

'It would have been far better if you had never been born.'