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Great Expectations

By Charles Dickens

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780140623161

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"Great Expectations" opens unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes.
There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benef Continue

"Great Expectations" opens unforgettably in a twilit and overgrown churchyard on the eerie Kent marshes.
There the orphan Pip is disturbed to meet an escaped convict, Magwitch, but gives him food, in an encounter that is to haunt both their lives. How Pip receives riches from a mysterious benefactor, snobbishly abandons his friends for London society and 'great expectations', and grows through misfortune and suffering to maturity is the theme of one of Dickens's best-loved novels.
In "Great Expectations" Dickens blends gripping drama with penetrating satire to give a compelling story rich in comedy and pathos: he has also created two of his finest, most haunting characters in Pip and Miss Havisham.

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  • 6 people find this helpful

    In my opinion, Dickens at his best.<br />You can't be a reader if you haven't read Great Expectations. <br />This book is simply perfect: it's funny, sad and bitter just when it needs to be funny, sad or bitter.<br />I rarely read a book a second time, but I'm 100% positive I'll re ... (continue)

    In my opinion, Dickens at his best.<br />You can't be a reader if you haven't read Great Expectations. <br />This book is simply perfect: it's funny, sad and bitter just when it needs to be funny, sad or bitter.<br />I rarely read a book a second time, but I'm 100% positive I'll read this more than once. <br /> You're unforgivable if you haven't read it already!!!.

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    Miss Piggott said on Aug 12, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 4 feedbacks

  • 2 people find this helpful

    This book is well written, of course. The plot is engaging, of course. The descriptions are detailed, of course. However, I found the coincidences in this story too contrived to be really believable. And I.. I recomend this book to friends who have insomnia.

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    Gift said on Feb 1, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • I was a bit too young when I first read this and probably ought to reread it again at some point.

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    zaku said on Jan 7, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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