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"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. Miss Havisham, a wealthy and reclusive spinster, asks Mr Pumblechook, a relation of the Gargerys, to find a boy to visit her. She was jilted at the altar and still wears her old wedding dress and lives in a dilapidated Satis House. Pip visits Miss Havisham and falls in love with Estella, her adopted daughter. To stay close to her, Pip becomes an apprentice which promises him a chance to better his position in life.