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| Writer | Charles Dickens |
| Category | Novel |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chapman & Hall |
| Publish Date | 1861 |
| Pages | 685 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
| File Type |
father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith.
As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com ? as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
‘Hold your noise!’ cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. ‘Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!’ A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head.
Great Expectations PDF