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An unexpected fortune changes the life of Pip, a young orphan with dreams of becoming a gentleman.
Pip grows up in the marsh country of England, where an escaped convict and the strange household of Miss Havisham alter his imagination. An unnamed benefactor later offers him the chance to become a gentleman in London.
Dickens follows Pip’s ambitions, shame, and changing loyalties. The mystery of his expectations is inseparable from the question of what makes someone worthy of respect and affection.
Memorable encounters in the marshes, the forge, Satis House, and London give Pip’s growth a series of sharply different settings. The older narrator’s awareness of his younger self’s mistakes adds both humor and tenderness to the story of his education.
