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Paperback Õ Great Expectations eBook ê great pdf, expectations free, Great Expectations Kindle876 Great Expectations Charles DickensThe novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 In October 1861 Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes On Christmas Eve around 1812 Pip an orphan who is about seven years old encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the g
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