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Charles Dickens

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The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century and contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery; poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death and has a colorful cast of characters who have entered popular culture.