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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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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
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Copyright 1985 Reader's Digest Association Far East Ltd.
Copyright 1985 Reader's Digest Association Far East Ltd.
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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