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CITY OF LONDON
 
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
 
Synopsis:
Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. Pip's desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.

 

Other City of London books:

 

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

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On Kent Marshes, a young lad stands among the graves looking at the names on the headstone where his parents and siblings are buried. Philip Pirrip, known as Pip lives with his older sister and her husband, the local blacksmith Joe. He is disturbed by a man who has escaped from a prison hulk – a ship moored in the river. The man persuades Pip to get him a file in order to take off his shackles and frightened, Pip complies. Later the man is captured and Pip thinks no more of him. He is later sent to a large country house where the mysterious Miss Havisham lives – she wants him to entertain her and her young charge Estella.

Glimpsing what life could be, Pip becomes discontented with his lot, and when he is invited to move to London and to improve himself he jumps at the chance and soon puts his past life out of his mind, but the past cannot stay buried forever and before long it catches up with him.

I have now read six Dickens books and it’s easy to see why his books became classics – this was very enjoyable. The parts that were set in Kent were particularly good – I suspect the fact that I played on the marshes myself as a child in Higham, where Dickens lived for the last fourteen years of his life. Six down, ten to go! :D

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