
&you are to understand Mr Pip that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret& Young Pip lives with his sister & her husband the blacksmith with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London Pip is haunted by figures from his past
- the escaped convict Magwitch the time-withered Miss Havisham & her proud & beautiful ward Estella
- & in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart A powerful & moving novel Great Expectations is suffused with Dickens&s memories of the past & its grip on the present & it raises disturbing questions about the extent to which individuals affect each other&s lives This edition
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