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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havasham. Charles Dickens set Great Expectations during the time that England was becoming a wealthy world power. Machines were making factories more productive, yet people lived in awful conditions, and such themes carry into the story.

Take the Quiz With whom does Pip live at the beginning of the book?
  1. His sister and her husband
  2. Miss Havisham
  3. Uncle Pumblechook
  4. Jaggers
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