![]() ![]() Yet it persists as one of Dickens's most popular novels. Written in the last decade of Dickens's life, Great Expectations reveals the author's dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions, and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life that would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with members of the idle upper class. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child, Estella, with whom he instantly falls in love. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Great Expectations Volume 2 By Charles Dickens In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. ![]()
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