Great Expectations
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations Release date is 1998-07-01
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"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens is a novel first published serially from 1860 to 1861. The story follows Pip, a young orphan living with his sister and her blacksmith husband on England's coastal marshes. After a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict and strange visits to the bitter Miss Havisham and her cold adopted daughter Estella, Pip's life transforms when he mysteriously receives a fortune from an unknown benefactor. This bildungsroman explores wealth and poverty, love and rejection, through vivid characters and dramatic scenes that have captivated readers for generations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Orphans -- Fiction England -- Fiction Revenge -- Fiction Bildungsromans Young men -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Ex-convicts -- Fiction Benefactors -- Fiction