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"'It was another half-hour before I drew near to the kiln. The lime was burning with a sluggish stiffling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible."

On the stairs I stood with my lamp held out over the stairwell, and he came slowly within its light by F. W. Pailthorpe (c. 1900); Untitled chapter heading by Edward Ardizzone (1939); Provis by Harry Furniss (1910); ““” by F. A. Fraser. (c. 1877);

Four artists's interpretations of Pip's encounters with the returned Magwitch — left to right:  >> http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/39.html

Don't Go Home, Marcus Stone, Wood engraving, 6 x 4 inches, Dickens's Great Expectations, Garnett edition, facing p. 486.  Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.  [Illustrations of this novel by other artists] [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the person who scanned the image and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one. ]

 

 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

[1867 Edition][Project Gutenberg Editor's Note: There is also another version of
this work etext98/grexp10.txt scanned from a different edition]

Chapter I

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,
"Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," 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 row beside
their grave, and were sacred to the memory of five little brothers of
mine,--who gave up trying to get a living, exceedingly early in
that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously
entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands
in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of
existence.

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Great Expectations, first published serially in 1860-1861, takes place in nineteenth century England.  The story is about the life of the orphaned Philip Pirrip, who calls himself Pip. The events of Pip's life unfold as Pip learns the true value of the people he has encountered throughout his life.

CHARLES DICKENS. 1812-1870,

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 to John and Elizabeth Barrow Dickens in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. He was the second of eight children. His father moved the family frequently between London and Chatham and was often in debt. John Dickens was imprisoned at Marshalsea Debtor's Prison for several months in 1824, and twelve-year-old Charles was forced to drop out of school and go to work in a shoe-dye, or blacking, factory, labeling bottles. This experience of living alone in London in poverty, though only a few months in length, provided material for many of his writings and profoundly affected his outlook on life. After his father's release from prison, Charles returned to school until he was fifteen years old. His formal education ended at this time, but he continued to expand his knowledge by spending a great deal of time reading in the library of the British Museum in London. He began his career as a writer and journalist in 1833 by writing articles on London life for magazines under the pseudonym Boz. In 1836, the year of his marriage to Catherine Hogarth, these articles were collected in a book entitled Sketches by Boz. With this publication came the first taste of fame, and he embarked on a successful writing career that covered nearly thirty years. Charles Dickens was fortunate to achieve renown and critical praise during his lifetime as well as afterwards for his literary works. He is widely considered one of the greatest novelists in the English language, and Great Expectations is regarded as one of his finest novels.

[SIDEBAR:  This is 2013.  We have digital electronic units that pay for all 'earth' charges via the 'money changers'', and yet where is our Dickens' to write this level of genius?  He suffered and we suffer, all humans in earth suffer to this very day as bad as Pip or worse.  Why when digital electronic units are virtual and not the metals forced on the people in Dickens' time.

We need to think GREAT EXPECTATIONS can happen in the Sovereign Mony reality.]

.. to be continued ...