Great Expectations
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Great Expectations, first published between 1860 and 1861, is considered one of the great, mature novels of Charles Dickens. Still a big seller today, it was made into a well regarded film by David Lean in 1946. [1]
Plot
The book follows the adventures of Pip, a child of the English marshlands, as he copes badly with a mysterious inheritance. Moving to London, he becomes a snob and, in one of the films more distressing scenes, acts in an embarrassed fashion when his much-lived guardian, Joe Gargery, comes to stay. It later transpires that, contrary to Pip's assumption, the money did not come from well-off Miss Havisham -- deranged since her jilting, years earlier -- but from Magwitch, a convict Pip helped escape. Distressed by this intelligence, Pip learns humility.
