Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
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 and 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….Read More
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