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GREAT EXPECTATIONS [1867 Edition]
by Charles Dickens










Chapter I
My 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. From the character and
turn of the inscription, "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above," I drew a childish conclusion
that my mother was freckled and sickly. To five little stone lozenges, each about a foot
and a half long, which were arranged in a neat row beside their grave, and were sacred to
the memory of five little brothers of mine,--who gave up trying to get a living,
exceedingly early in that universal struggle,--I am indebted for a belief I religiously
entertained that they had all been born on their backs with their hands in their
trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence.

Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles
of the sea. My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me
to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I
found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and
that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and
buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children
of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the