Great expectations

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Charles Dickens: Great expectations (2008, Coffeetownpress)

788 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2008 by Coffeetownpress.

ISBN:
978-1-60381-010-4
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OCLC Number:
1001886936

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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

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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

  • Man-woman relationships
  • Young men
  • Ex-convicts
  • Benefactors
  • Orphans
  • Revenge
  • Fiction

Places

  • England