Great Expectations

GCSE 9-1 Set Text Student Edition

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Collins Collins GCSE, Maria Cairney, Charles Dickens (duplicate of OL24638A): Great Expectations (2021, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)

English language

Published March 9, 2021 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

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978-0-00-848193-3
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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."

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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.