A Review about life of young orphan “Pip” in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
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Pip, a young orphan living with his sister and her husband in the marshes of Kent, sits in a cemetery one evening looking at his parents’ tombstones. Suddenly, an escaped convict springs up from behind a tombstone, grabs Pip, and orders him to bring him food and a file for his leg irons. Pip obeys, but the fearsome convict is soon captured anyway. The convict protects Pip by claiming to have stolen the items himself.
References
John Forster: The Life of Charles Dickens (Forgotten Books, 2009), A fine if tactful and partial biography by one of Dickens’s closest friends, first published shortly after Dickens’s death
Edgar Johnson: Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph (Abridged version, Allen Lane 1977). The classic biography, scrupulously researched, dating from 1952
Peter Ackroyd: Dickens (Abridged version, Vintage 2002). A shorter modern biography, offering no original research but extremely readable, astute and vivid