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Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialise in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840.

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  • "Enormous Anticipations"
  • This Dickens novel has been filmed several times, most recently in 1998
  • Mr. Bellow calls this "Pip" of a Dickens novel "The story of a mild young man on the make"
  • In 1861 Dickens finished writing this novel
  • All Miss Havisham's clocks are permanently stopped in this 1860 work
  • In the 1998 film version of this Dickens novel, the hero not only pines for Estella, he sketches her
  • That wedding gown, that faded gown--I cannot get it, or poor Miss Havisham, out of my head
  • Uncle Pumblechook,Mr. Wopsle,Miss Havisham
  • Sharing its name with a Dickens novel, this dating service has been matching up couples since 1976
  • "G.E."
  • Pip Pip hooray for this novel in which Pip learns that honest work is more rewarding than shallow dreams
  • Dickens novel in which Miss Havisham left everything in her house as it was the day she was jilted
  • Ethan Hawke & Robert De Niro starred in this film based on a Dickens novel
  • Estella &Miss Havisham
  • Philip Pirrip
  • In this book Miss Havisham dies when her wedding dress catches on fire
  • The last chapter provides an ambiguous end for Pip & Estella in this classic novel
  • Dickens' 13th novel, it made its world debut in the USA's Harper's Weekly, which had high hopes for it
  • More orphans?! & this book's start, "My father's family name being Pirrip"... not exactly "Call me Ishmael", Chuck!
  • Satis House is the home of Miss Havisham in this classic
  • (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) David Lean's 1946 British film of this Dickens tale is a real "Pip", & the opening graveyard sequence is a gem
  • Chapter 11 of this book begins, "At the appointed time I returned to Miss Havisham's"
  • This novel begins, "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip..."
  • Phillip Pirrip(1860)
  • At the start of this Dickens novel, Pip meets an escaped convict who threatens to eat him
  • This Dickens novel starts with a boy visiting his parents' graves, where he's surprised by an escaped convict

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