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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Great Expectations: First Stage, Chapters 1 - 11

Chapter One

The central character and narrator of Great Expectations was born with
the name of Phillip Pirrip. As he tells us, he could not, as a child,
pronounce this, so he called himself, and came to be called, Pip. He has no
memory of his parents and can only guess what they were like by the appearance
of their carved tombstones; in the churchyard near the marshes not far from
his village. Pip's first memory is of contemplating these tombstones on a
cold, damp day; only to be interrupted by a ...

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