Great expectations

by Charles Dickens

No cover — Charles Dickens: Great expectations (1861, Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly)

Published Dec. 25, 1861 by Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly.

OCLC Number:: 1110892

(9 reviews)

An unknown benefactor supplies an orphaned blacksmith's apprentice with the means to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."

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bondolo@bookwyrm.social reviewed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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4 stars

I enjoyed this novel more than I expected. Dickens writes very impressively, which maybe should not be a surprise but I imagined something more formal and tedious. He writes with a rhythm and some amazing turns of phrases. I am unfamiliar with the speech of the time to understand how much of what seems novel to me is merely the idiom of the time.