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The byzantine legal suit of Jarndyce vs.

A bitter old miser gets visited by a bunch of gnarly ghosts on Christmas Eve and decides to stop being such a jerk to his secretary.

When the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful niece Estella draw orphan Pip into the decayed luxury of their world, he begins to form desires above his station.

A richly-woven and moving tale set against the bloody and fearsome events of the French Revolution.