Great Expectations (Rinehart Editions, 20)

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Charles Dickens, Earle Davis: Great Expectations (Rinehart Editions, 20) (Paperback, 1979, Harcourt Brace College Publishers)

Paperback, 470 pages

English language

Published June 19, 1979 by Harcourt Brace College Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-03-077900-8
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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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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.

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Subjects

  • 19th century fiction
  • Literary
  • Fiction - General
  • Benefactors
  • Ex-convicts
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Young men
  • Fiction