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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1861
Pages
Pages 520

A blacksmith's boy is given money by an unknown patron and grooms himself into a London gentleman, only to learn his fortune comes from the last person he would have chosen.

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

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