About this eBook
Great Expectations follows the childhood and young adult years of Pip a blacksmith’s apprentice in a country village. Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman. He suddenly comes into a large fortune (his great expectations) from a mysterious benefactor and moves to London where he enters high society. The moral theme of Great Expectations is affection, loyalty, and conscience are more important than social advancement, wealth, and class.
About the author
Charles John Huffam Dickens(1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
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