Great Expectations
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ISBN: 0689839618 / Publisher: Aladdin, November 2000
When a mysterious benefactor enables the orphan boy, Pip, to rise in Victorian society, Pip is educated as a gentleman and snobbishly neglects his childhood friends.
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No other novel in the English language so epitomizes upward mobility, the rise from poverty to wealth, as Great Expectations. Often considered to be one of Dickens's best novels, it tells the story of young Pip who is mysteriously helped by two people: escaped convict Magwitch and the eccentric dowager Miss Havisham. Here is storytelling at its best, alive with bigger-than-life characters, plot twists that turn on a dime, and scenes that burst off the page with color.
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