Peggotty, and that was of a
certain prisoner he had seen in one of the country's greatest prisons,
sentenced for life for an attempt to rob the Bank of England, and whose
name was--Uriah Heep.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Published 1860-1861

_Scene_: London, Neighboring Towns and the Country

_Time_: 1830 to 1860

CHARACTERS

Philip Pirrip An orphan boy
Known as "Pip"

Joe Gargery A blacksmith

"Mrs. Joe" His wife
Pip's sister

Uncle Pumblechook Joe's pompous uncle

Wopsle Clerk of the village church
Later, an actor

Orlick A workman of Joe's

Biddy A girl friend of Pip's and Mrs. Joe's nurse
Later, Joe's wife

Abel Magwitch A convict

Miss Havisham An eccentric woman once disappointed
in love

Estella Her ward
In reality, Magwitch's daughter

Compeyson Miss Havisham's former suitor and deceiver
A convict

Mr. Jaggers Lawyer for Miss Havisham and
for Magwitch

Wemmick His clerk

Mr. Pocket Pip's tutor

Mrs. Pocket His wife

Herbert Pocket His son. Pip's comrade in London

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

I

PIP AND THE CONVICT

In England, in a lonely village not far from London, there once lived a
little orphan boy named Philip Pirrip, whom everybody called, for short,
"Pip." His parents had died when he was a baby, and he had been brought
up by his older sister, the wife of Joe Gargery, a blacksmith whose
forge looked out across wide marshes and a river that flowed through
them.

Joe, the blacksmith, was a fair-faced man with flaxen whiskers and very
bright blue eyes. He was a mild, honest, good-natured, sweet-tempered,
easy-going, foolish, dear fellow, tender-hearted and kind to little P