Great Expectations (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Great Expectations<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.