Great expectations

Paperback, 514 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2003 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-143956-3
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OCLC Number:
51194609

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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

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