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From the book:My father's family name being Pirrip, and my hristian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the auth-ority of his tombstone and my sister - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tomb-stones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine - who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle -I am indebted for a belief I relig-iously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.

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Great Expectations
2019, Standard Ebooks
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Great Expectations
2016-01-14, LibriVox
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Timeless Classics Low Level: Great Expectations
Jan 01, 2014, Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
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Groote Verwachtingen
2013-09-23, LibriVox
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Great Expectations
2012-11-15, LibriVox
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Great Expectations
2008-12-12, LibriVox
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Les grandes espérances
2006, Project Gutenberg
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Great Expectations
2006, 1st World Library
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Great Expectations
1998-07-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
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Great Expectations
1992, Baronet Books
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Great Expectations
1987-01-01, Chancellor Press
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Great Expectations
/1970, [publisher not identified]
in English
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Great Expectations
1963-01-01, Signet, Washington Square Press
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Great Expectations: And Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
1868, Books
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Great Expectations: And Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
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Great Expectations: And Some Account of an Extraordinary Traveller
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Great Expectations
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OL24286849M
ISBN 10
1595404708
OCLC/WorldCat
70056530
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1B481D5E-A314-4A62-83EB-4ECCC7F8FBAD

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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.

The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens's most celebrated scenes, starting in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery – poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death – and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith. Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. Great Expectations, which is popular both with readers and literary critics, has been translated into many languages and adapted numerous times into various media.

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November 2, 2021 Edited by lisaBot moving edition(s) to primary work
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