Great Expectations

A Coming-Of-Age Book about Ambition and Self-Improvement

by Charles Dickens (duplicate of OL24638A), Peace Classics Publishing

No cover — Charles Dickens (duplicate of OL24638A), Peace Classics Publishing: Great Expectations (2022, Independently Published)

English language

Published March 9, 2022 by Independently Published.

ISBN:: 979-8-8315-1550-3

(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

I may need to read more

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.