Great Expectations

Paperback, 560 pages

English language

Published Dec. 30, 2006 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-102353-3
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OCLC Number:
62225082

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4 stars (9 reviews)

The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.

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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.

Subjects

  • Social conditions
  • Fiction

Places

  • England