Great Expectations, Dickens' most famous novel, is the autobiography of one Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, who comes into an unexpected fortune. It's a novel about pride, about origins, about criminality. Every Dickens novel I've read invariably features a character (not necessarily the principal one...
I hadn't read a lot of Dickens before this. A Christmas Carol is a sentimental favorite, but A Tale of Two Cities bored me to tears the couple of times I tried. I remember liking Hard Times when I read it for college, but I can't remember a thing about that book. I can't imagine the details of Great...
It late Doing what a I am sure many of do staying up past my bed time lost in a book. I really have nothing of worth to add that I am sure has not been brought up before.What I can say I liked it.I am glad I took the time to read it.And I wish the more of the book would have read like the the last ...
WHEW!! That was a long haul! What I liked:1) Really great, evocative, authentic writing. Charles Dickens. Dickens's words in Prebble's mouth had the effect of plopping the reader right down in the same room with these characters. The story was very vivid because of the combined talents of thes...
I am so glad to be finished with this book, it took me forever to read! First off, part of the reason why I was so discouraged to read this, and why it took me so long was because the lettering in the book was soooo tiny! It was horrible, I hate when books have small lettering, especially since this...
So I’ve read a few classics in my time and ALL of them, no matter how interesting I find them, cause me to start to doze off only a few pages in. So naturally, they take me a long time to read. So for a change, I decided that I was going to try listening to a classic and see how that went. Well it w...
"Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectationsI love Dickens. I love his rich descriptions, vivid imagery and minutious attention to even the slightest details. I love to wallow in his lovely long words and to spent half an hour to re...
I really did not expect to love this book as much as I did. I finished it yesterday and I'm still a little overwhelmed about the whole thing. This is the most I've been emotionally invested in a character in a really long time. The book itself drags in places, and I found myself skimming some parts ...
2/3/2013: One of the more accessible Dickens works. I thought "Bleak House", while a good story, was muddled as I was not familiar with the historical legal issues Dickens was illuminating. This is a straight forward narrative where knowledge of Newgate Prison and the colonization of Australia wi...
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