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Great expectations

 
dc.contributor Bicker, Lynne The Registry U of Kent
dc.contributor.author Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
dc.coverage.placeName Harmondsworth
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-04T09:49:38Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-04T09:49:38Z
dc.date.created 1861
dc.date.issued 1987-04-30
dc.identifier ota:1055
dc.identifier.citation http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1055
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1055
dc.description.abstract Great expectations first published: 1860-1861
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dc.language English
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.rights.label PUB
dc.subject.lcsh Fiction -- Great Britain -- 19th century
dc.subject.lcsh Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century
dc.subject.other Novels
dc.title Great expectations
dc.type Text
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otaterms.date.range 1800-1899

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<1Chapter 1>1 My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister -- Mrs Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. From the character and turn of the inscription, <1"Also Georgiana Wife of the Above,'>1 I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long which were arranged in a neat . . .
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