Joe Gargery, the gentle giant, provoked to violence in his smithy. In the background his brother-in-law Philip Pirrip (Pip), the hero of the novel, works the bellows. Illustration by Charles Green (1840-98), for Charles Dickens 'Great Expectations'. Title first published 1860-1861.

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Joe Gargery, the gentle giant, provoked to violence in his smithy. In the background his brother-in-law Philip Pirrip (Pip), the hero of the novel, works the bellows. Illustration by Charles Green (1840-98), for Charles Dickens 'Great Expectations'. Title first published 1860-1861.

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