Great Expectations

The Story of Pip, an Orphan Boy Adopted by a Blacksmith's Family, Who Has Good Luck and Great Expectations, and Then Loses Both .

by Charles Dickens

No cover — Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (2021, Independently Published)

587 pages

English language

Published April 1, 2021 by Independently Published.

ISBN:: 979-8-5324-9781-8

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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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bondolo@bookwyrm.social reviewed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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.