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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Summary:
This
novel was one of its Charles Dickens' greatest critical and popular successes.
The first-person narrative relates the coming-of-age of Pip (Philip Pirrip).
Reared in the marshes of Kent by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured
husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the young Pip one day helps a convict to
escape. Later he is sent to live with Miss Havisham, a woman driven half-mad
years earlier by her lover's departure on their wedding day. Her other ward is
the orphaned Estella, whom she is teaching to torment men with her beauty. Pip,
at first cautious, later falls in love with Estella, to his misfortune. When an
anonymous benefactor makes it possible for Pip to go to London for an education,
he credits Miss Havisham. He begins to look down on his humble roots, but
nonetheless Estella spurns him again and marries instead the ill-tempered
Bentley Drummle. Pip's benefactor turns out to have been Abel Magwitch, the
convict he once aided, who dies awaiting trial after Pip is unable to help him a
second time. Joe rescues Pip from despair and nurses him back to health.
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