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Book Review of Great Expectations (Great Illustrated Classics)

Great Expectations (Great Illustrated Classics)
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Young Pip, an orphan boy, apprenticed to the village blacksmith, yearns to be a gentleman. Suddenly a mysterious person wills him a fortune andhe leaves his village to be educated as a rich gentleman. Pip longs to marry Estella, a beautiful ward of the eccentric Miss Havisham. But Pip's new life is shattered by the re-appearance of Magwitch, a convict who once forced him to steal. Will Magwitch's demands spell the end of Pip's "great expectations"....?