Table of Contents CHAPTER 1 Pip 4 CHAPTER 2 My Convict 11 CHAPTER 3 Hunting 15 CHAPTER 4 Miss Havisham 19 CHAPTER 5 My Work Began 26 CHAPTER 6 Changes 32 CHAPTER 7 Pip a Gentleman 37 CHAPTER 8 London 43 CHAPTER 9 Visiting 49 CHAPTER 10 Love 56 CHAPTER 11 Estella 64 CHAPTER 12 A Stranger Arrives 69 CHAPTER 13 Knowledge 75 CHAPTER 14 Provis’s Story 80 CHAPTER 15 The Plan 85 CHAPTER 16 Forgiveness 91 CHAPTER 17 Looping Back 97 CHAPTER 18 The Trial 102 CHAPTER 19 Friends 108
chapter 1 Pip I never met my parents or my five brothers I know only what little my sister told me I have my father’s name Philip Pirrip but have never worn it When I was small all I could say of the name was Pip Thus Pip I named myself and Pip I am called One cold Christmas Eve I visited the graveyard I often came to read the tombstones of my family looking for clues to who they were My father’s square stone made me certain he was a stout man I looked down the row of neatly lined brothers that I would never meet I began to cry Keep still or I’ll cut your throat A man rose from among the graves He wore filthy 4
wet clothes and an iron cuff on one leg He seized me by the chin and demanded What’s your name Pip sir I whispered The man turned me upside down and emptied my pockets A piece of bread fell out and he grabbed it before dumping me on a high tombstone He wolfed down the bread and stared at me again Where is your mother I pointed There sir He jumped up and ran a few steps then looked over his shoulder There sir I pointed at the tombstone Also Georgiana That’s my mother Oh he said coming back And is that your father beside your mother Yes sir He asked where I lived I told him I lived with the village blacksmith Blacksmith eh He looked down at his leg then he grabbed me by the arms and tilted me 5
