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Charles Dickens (duplicate of OL24638A), Patricia Castelao: Great Expectations (2010, ABDO Publishing Company)

English language

Published March 9, 2010 by ABDO Publishing Company.

ISBN:
978-1-61641-160-2
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4 stars (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."

138 editions

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.

Subjects

  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, coming of age
  • England, fiction
  • Man-woman relationships, fiction