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  1. A short summary of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Great Expectations.

  2. Get all the key plot points of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.

  3. Great Expectations, novel by Charles Dickens, first published serially in All the Year Round in 1860–61 and issued in book form in 1861. The classic novel was one of its author’s greatest critical and popular successes.

  4. Great Expectations is the story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses both his luck and his expectations. Through this rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness.

  5. Great Expectations: plot summary. Philip Pirrip, known as ‘Pip’, is an orphan who has been raised by his elder sister and her husband, Joe Gargery. Joe is a blacksmith, and a kind friend to the young Pip.

  6. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a Bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.

  7. Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) From a general summary to chapter summaries to explanations of famous quotes, the SparkNotes Great Expectations Study Guide has everything you need to ace quizzes, tests, and essays.

  8. Great Expectations at a Glance. 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 Havisham.

  9. Great Expectations tells the story of an orphan named Philip Pirrip, or Pip. Pip lives with his tyrannical older sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, and her gentle husband, a blacksmith named Joe Gargery. Joe is Pip’s closest friend.

  10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a novel about an orphan named Pip who becomes a gentleman. Here are some key plot summary points: Pip grows up in Kent with his older sister and her...