Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Paperback, 417 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 1995 by Puffin Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-130932-3

(9 reviews)

As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life — an escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Haversham, whose beautiful, cold ward Estella young Pip adores. But when a secret benefactor pays for him to go to London to become a gentleman, Pip never dreams he will meet the dreadful Magwitch again, nor just how wrong his expectations are . . .

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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.