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An epic tale of a young orphan's rise from rags to riches.
When young Pip is accosted in the graveyard by Magwitch, an escaped convict, and forced to help him, he little knows that their lives are destined to cross in future years.
Pip's upbringing with his kindly uncle Joe, his involvement with the crazy world of the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful young ward, the icy Estella, and then a new life in London, are all part of this classic story of a boy discovering the reality of 'great expectations'.
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The Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
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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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