Dickens traces Pip's journey from blacksmith's apprentice to gentleman, showing how easily shame about our origins can poison everything we touch. This coming-of-age story is also a ghost story, as Pip's mysterious benefactor and the traumatized Miss Havisham haunt him with the weight of debts both financial and moral. Dickens' London is rendered in unforgettable grotesquery, from the marshes of Pip's childhood to the decaying wedding feast where time has stopped. This Victorian bildungsroman explores class, ambition, and identity in Charles Dickens' masterful prose.
 
 
 
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