Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations

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all his life Charles Dickens would remember a particular day when he was nine years old and something his father said They were out walking together and had stopped as they often did to admire a handsome rose brick house called Gad's Hill Place With its lovely bay windows and sweeping lawn it seemed as grand as a palace to them Then John Dickens told his son that if he worked very hard someday he might live in that house The thought took Charles's breath away The sort of person who would live in Gad's Hill Place would be a distinguished man of taste and education His father believed that Charles could someday be like that All he had to do was work hard He could not have known on that day how far he would fall and how high he would rise and that he really would live in that house and that he would die there