Streszczenie książki Great Expectations

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A frightened boy promises a convict help

   The book opens in a bleak churchyard on the marshes, where a small boy reads the tombstones of his family. His name is Philip Pirrip, but he shortens it to Pip. He never saw his parents, so he invents their faces from the letters carved on the stones.

   Then a terrible man springs up from among the graves. He wears a heavy iron on his leg, he is soaked and shivering, and he turns Pip upside down. He finds only a piece of bread and eats it like a starving dog. He orders Pip to bring a file and food to the old Battery at dawn, and to tell no one. Pip swears, and the man limps away toward the river.

   Pip runs home to the forge, where his sister, Mrs. Mrs. Joe Gargery has raised him by hand. Her hand is heavy. Joe the blacksmith is gentle and kind, and he and Pip are fellow sufferers. A small kindness done under threat can echo for many years.

2. 2

   Pip steals food and survives Christmas dinner

   Pip lies awake with a dreadful problem.

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3. 3

   Soldiers hunt the convicts across the marshes

   A sergeant and his men burst into the kitchen, and Pip thinks the handcuffs are meant for him.

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4. 4

   Joe and Biddy offer Pip a plain, good life

   Pip grows up at the forge as Joe's apprentice.

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5. 5

   Satis House shows Pip a frozen, broken world

   One evening Mrs. Joe announces that a rich, reclusive lady named Miss Havisham wants a boy to come and play at her house.

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6. 6

   Shame makes Pip want to be a gentleman

   When Pip comes home from that first visit, Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook press him for every detail.

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7. 7

   A lawyer arrives with great expectations for Pip

   Before the news comes, a cruel shadow falls on the house.

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8. 8

   In London, Pip learns manners, friends, and debts

   Pip reaches London and meets Mr. Jaggers in his grim office, with its two plaster casts of twitching faces.

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9. 9

   Money and class can corrupt a good heart

   The book asks what makes a gentleman.

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10. 10

    Older Pip tells his story with humor and regret

    Pip tells the whole story himself, years after it happens, and that choice gives the book its tone.

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