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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...
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Annie Dawson has had many mysteries thrown at her since moving to Stony Point, Maine, but nothing has matched this one. A mysterious benefactor is leaving generous gifts for various Stony Point residents, each one accompanied by a handwritten note saying, "Early Merry Christmas, from Stony Point's Santa." Annie would leave the philanthropist alone to do his or her good deeds, if it weren't for the fact that more and more people from the small seaside...