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GREAT EXPECTATIONS

by Charles Dickens

Illustrations by F W. PAILTHORPE Afterword by EDWIN P. WHIPPLE a contemporary view

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The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. Pleasantville, N.Y./Montreal

Great Expectations

This Reader's Digest edition contains the complete text of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, first published in 1861.

F. W. Pailthorpe illustrations courtesy of The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Map on pages 10-11 by David Lindroth

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 84-62236 ISBN 0-89577-205-1

Printed in the United States of America

CHARACTERS

PIP (Philip Pirrip), an orphan; narrator and hero of the story

JOE GARGERY, a blacksmith; Pip's brother-in-law; "mild, good. natured a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness

MRS. JOE, Pip's older sister and Joe's wife

BIDDY, an orphan; a friend of Pip and Joe

ABEL MAGWITCH (also called Provis), an escaped convict; "a fearful man... who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled"

MISS HAVISHAM, a rich woman living in seclusion; "the strangest lady I have ever seen, or shall ever see"

ESTELLA, Miss Havisham's ward; "beautiful and self-possessed; and as scornful of me as if she had been... a queen"

MR. JAGGERS, a lawyer; "with a manner expressive of knowing something secret about every one of us"

HERBERT POCKET, Pip's good friend; "the pale young gentleman"

OLD ORLICK, a journeyman blacksmith employed by Joe Gargery; later a porter for Miss Havisham

MR. TRABB, a haberdasher and undertaker

TRABB'S BOY, insolent employee of Mr. Trabb

MR. WOPSLE, clerk of the village church; later an actor

MR. WOPSLE'S GREAT-AUNT, keeper of a school and general shop

MR. PUMBLECHOOK, Joe Gargery's uncle; a local corn merchant

MISS SARAH POCKET, a relative of Miss Havisham

COUSIN RAYMOND, another relative

CAMILLA, wife of Cousin Raymond

MATTHEW POCKET, Pip's tutor at Hammersmith; father of Herbert

BELINDA POCKET, wife of Matthew Pocket

JOHN WEMMICK, Mr. Jaggers's law clerk

AGED P., Mr. Wemmick's father

MISS SKIFFENS, Mr. Wemmick's fiancée

MOLLY, Mr. Jaggers's housekeeper

MIKE, a suspicious client of Mr. Jaggers

BENTLEY DRUMMLE, a fellow-student with Pip at Hammersmith;

dubbed "The Spider" by Mr. Jaggers MR. STARTOP, another fellow student at Hammersmith

CLARA BARLEY, fiancée of Herbert Pocket

OLD BILL BARLEY, a bedridden ship's purser; father of Clara

THE AVENGER, a boy in livery employed by Pip

COMPEYSON, an escaped convict

MR. CLARRIKER, a young shipping-broker

MRS. BRANDLEY, a socially prominent widow living at Richmond