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==Novels influenced by ''Great Expectations''== Dickens's novel has influenced a number of writers. Sue Roe's ''Estella: Her Expectations'' (1982), for example, explores the inner life of an Estella fascinated with a Havisham figure.<ref>{{cite book |first=Nicolas |last=Tredell |title=Charles Dickens: David Copperfield/ Great Expectations |location=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2013 |page=209 |isbn=978-1137283245}}</ref> Miss Havisham is again important in ''Havisham: A Novel'' (2013), a book by [[Ronald Frame]], that features an imagining of the life of Miss Catherine Havisham from childhood to adulthood.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/havisham-by-ronald-frame-8274148.html |title=Havisham, By Ronald Frame: To reimagine a dark star of classic fiction is a daring move, but one that yields mixed results |last=Craig |first=Amanda |date=3 November 2012 |work=The Independent |access-date=25 May 2018 |archive-date=26 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526185748/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/havisham-by-ronald-frame-8274148.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The second chapter of Rosalind Ashe's ''Literary Houses'' (1982) paraphrases Miss Havisham's story, with details about the nature and structure of Satis House and coloured imaginings of the house within.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ashe|first1=Rosalind|title=Literary Houses |date=1982|publisher=Facts on File|location=New York |isbn=9780871966766|page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GEhaAAAAMAAJ&q=satis|access-date=5 November 2015}}</ref> Miss Havisham is also central to ''[[Lost in a Good Book]]'' (2002), [[Jasper Fforde]]'s [[alternate history|alternative history]] fantasy novel, which features a parody of Miss Havisham.<ref>Fforde, Jasper (2002) ''Lost in a Good Book'', Hodder & Stoughton, 0-340-82283-X</ref> It won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association 2004 [[Dilys Award]].<ref name="urlThe Dilys Award">{{cite web |url=http://www.mysterybooksellers.com/dilys.html |title=The Dilys Award |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916165038/http://www.mysterybooksellers.com/dilys.html |archive-date=16 September 2008 |access-date=26 August 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Magwitch is the protagonist of [[Peter Carey (novelist)|Peter Carey]]'s ''[[Jack Maggs]]'' (1997), which is a re-imagining of Magwitch's return to England, with the addition, among other things, of a fictionalised Dickens character and plot-line.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/08/reviews/980208.08jamest.html?scp=2&sq=pilfers&st=cse |title=Great Extrapolations |work=The New York Times |last=James |first=Caryn |date=8 February 1998 |access-date=25 May 2018 |archive-date=26 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526113047/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/08/reviews/980208.08jamest.html?scp=2&sq=pilfers&st=cse |url-status=live }}</ref> Carey's novel won the [[Commonwealth Writers Prize]] in 1998. ''[[Mister Pip]]'' (2006), a novel by New Zealand author [[Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author)|Lloyd Jones]], won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. ''Mister Pip'' is set in a village on the [[Papua New Guinea]] island of [[Bougainville Island|Bougainville]] during a brutal civil war there in the 1990s, where the young protagonist's life is impacted in a major way by her reading of ''Great Expectations''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/07/featuresreviews.guardianreview21/ |title=Pip Pip: Olivia Laing finds Dickens taking root in a war-torn jungle in Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip |first=Olivia |last=Laing |work=The Guardian |date=7 July 2007 |access-date=25 May 2018 |department=Books |archive-date=13 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613060143/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/07/featuresreviews.guardianreview21 |url-status=live }}</ref> In May 2015, Udon Entertainment's Manga Classics line published a manga adaptation of ''Great Expectations''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Great Expectations |series=Manga Classics |year=2015 |last1=Dickens |first1=Charles |last2=Chan |first2=Crystal S |last3=King |first3=Stacy |publisher=UDON Entertainment |isbn=978-1927925317}}</ref>
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