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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Summary

The orphan Pip is lifted from poverty by a mysterious benefactor and discovers that wealth and status do not bring happiness. Dickens's most personal novel and one of his finest achievements in plotting and characterisation.

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Charles Dickens

English novelist (1812–1870) and social critic who created some of literature's most iconic characters. His serialised novels exposed Victorian poverty, the legal system, and social hypocrisy to a mass readership.

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Published
1861
Author
Charles Dickens