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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

1861 · Novel

Open Library OL8721462W

Pip is lifted out of a forge by money whose source he misunderstands. Dickens’s late novel is about class, gratitude, and the patron Pip invents in his head.

About the author

Dickens filled novels with institutions, comic speech, and people the city would rather not count. The books here run from a short Christmas tale to the long arc of Great Expectations. More of this shelf for Charles Dickens.

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