Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and spent the first nine years of his life living in Kent, a marshy region by the sea in the west of England. Dickens' father John was a kind and likable man, but he was incompetent with money and piled up tremendous debts throughout his life. When Dickens was nine, his family moved to London ....
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.... Dickens' early childhood are mirrored in , which, apart from David Copperfield, is his most autobiographical novel. Pip, the novel's protagonist, lives in the marsh country, works at a job he hates, considers himself too good for his surroundings, and experiences material success in London at a very early age. In addition, one of the novel's most appealing characters is a law clerk named Wemmick, and the law, justice, and the courts are all impo ....
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Number of words: 1949
Number of pages: 8 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)