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Book Description
"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
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Miss Piggott said on Aug 12, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 4 feedbacks
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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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Book Details
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- English Books
- Mass Market Paperback 442 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0140623167
- ISBN-13: 9780140623161
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Pub date: Jan 01, 1994
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Leather Bound, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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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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