Great Expectations

Hardcover, 648 pages

English language

Published Aug. 31, 2003 by Collector's Library.

ISBN:
978-1-904633-07-5
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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.

Subjects

  • 19th century fiction
  • Classic fiction
  • Literature: Classics