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coming of age

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

We first meet the orphan Pip as a young boy living with his harridan of an older sister and her saintly blacksmith husband, Joe. After Pip is drawn into the bizarre household of the wealthy and spiteful spinster Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter, Estella, his life and future prospects begin to shift. When "great expectations" of future wealth come upon him from an anonymous source, he leaves behind his humble roots and goes to London to become a gentleman.

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