Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When ...
Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith
Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds
two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably
unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he
must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip
fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for
Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped
galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the
blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate
of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy
rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break
the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins
his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays through a
lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob
in London, by now '...
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