Great Expectations

By Dickens, Charles

Book Id: WPLBN0000625478
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Great Expectations
Author:	Dickens, Charles
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago Dickens, B. C. (n.d.). Great Expectations. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Excerpt: Chapter One. 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. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father?s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister?Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father?s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, ?Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,? I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of mine?who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in that universal struggle?I am indebted for a belief I religiously entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers?pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Great Expectations, 1 -- Charles Dickens, 1 -- Chapter 1, 2 -- Chapter 2, 5 -- Chapter 3, 10 -- Chapter 4, 14 -- Chapter 5, 19 -- Chapter 6, 25 -- Chapter 7, 26 -- Chapter 8, 32 -- Chapter 9, 40 -- Chapter 10, 45 -- Chapter 11, 49 -- Chapter 12, 58 -- Chapter 13, 61 -- Chapter 14, 66 -- Chapter 15, 67 -- Chapter 16, 74 -- Chapter 17, 76 -- Chapter 18, 82 -- Chapter 19, 90 -- Chapter 20, 99 -- Chapter 21, 104 -- Chapter 22, 107 -- Chapter 23, 116 -- Chapter 24, 120 -- Chapter 25, 124 -- Chapter 26, 129 -- Chapter 27, 133 -- Chapter 28, 138 -- Chapter 29, 141 -- Chapter 30, 150 -- Chapter 31, 155 -- Chapter 32, 158 -- Chapter 33, 162 -- Chapter 34, 167 -- Chapter 35, 170 -- Chapter 36, 175 -- Chapter 37, 179 -- Chapter 38, 183 -- Chapter 39, 191 -- Chapter 40, 199 -- Chapter 41, 207 -- Chapter 42, 211 -- Chapter 43, 215 -- Chapter 44, 219 -- Chapter 45, 224