In this version of Charles Dickens' novel, orphan Pip learns from his lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, that a mysterious benefactor desires to see that he grows up to be a gentleman. When he is reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone insane as a result of being abandoned at the altar as a young woman, and has turned her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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In this version of Charles Dickens' novel, orphan Pip learns from his lawyer, Mr. Jaggers, that a mysterious benefactor desires to see that he grows up to be a gentleman. When he is reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone insane as a result of being abandoned at the altar as a young woman, and has turned her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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