Published 1860–1861
| Scene: | London, Neighboring Towns and the Country |
| Time: | 1830 to 1860 |
CHARACTERS
| Philip Pirrip | An orphan boy |
| Known as "Pip" | |
| Joe Gargery | A blacksmith |
| "Mrs. Joe" | His wife |
| Pip's sister | |
| Uncle Pumblechook | Joe's pompous uncle |
| Wopsle | Clerk of the village church |
| Later, an actor | |
| Orlick | A workman of Joe's |
| Biddy | A girl friend of Pip's and Mrs. Joe's nurse |
| Later, Joe's wife | |
| Abel Magwitch | A convict |
| Miss Havisham | An eccentric woman once disappointed in love |
| Estella | Her ward |
| In reality, Magwitch's daughter | |
| Compeyson | Miss Havisham's former suitor and deceiver |
| A convict | |
| Mr. Jaggers | Lawyer for Miss Havisham and for Magwitch |
| Wemmick | His clerk |
| Mr. Pocket | Pip's tutor |
| Mrs. Pocket | His wife |
| Herbert Pocket | His son. Pip's comrade in London |
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
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PIP AND THE CONVICT
In England, in a lonely village not far from London, there once lived a little orphan boy named Philip Pirrip, whom everybody called, for short, "Pip." His parents had died when he was a baby, and he had been brought up by his older sister, the wife of Joe Gargery, a blacksmith whose forge looked out across wide marshes and a river that flowed through them.