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Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham sits in a decaying, cobweb-covered dining room beside a young boy in a scene from the 1946 film Great Expectations, directed by David Lean.

Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.

Illustration of Joe Gargery standing with clenched fists in a smithy, a man cowering on the floor, and Pip working at the forge in the background, from Great Expectations.

Watch dramatized scenes of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations with literary commentary by Clifton Fadiman

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