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Please join the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club in reading 'Great Expectations.' Charles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made, not born, in this novel. Presented as Pip's confessional autobiography, 'Great Expectations' describes his childhood at the forge, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with "great expectations" of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings.