TY - BOOK AU - Dickens, Charles TI - Great Expectations SN - 0-19-283359-6 PB - Oxford University Press KW - Classic - Great Expectations KW - Fiction N2 - 'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the blacksmith, with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefaction takes him from the Kent marshes to London. Pip is haunted by figures from his past - the escaped convict Magwitch, the time-withered Miss Havisham and her proud and beautiful ward, Estella - and in time uncovers not just the origins of his great expectations but the mystery of his own heart ER -