Havisham
by:
Ronald Frame (author)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780571288311
Publish date: October 30th 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber Fiction
Pages no: 369
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Books About Books,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
19th Century,
Marriage,
Retellings
WHY I WANT TO READ IT: fillls in the back story for Dickens's novel Great Expectations.
I read Great Expectations in high school, which I am sure many of us did, and it is actually do for a re-read, well someday. I do remember Miss Havisham as being a nasty and bitter old biddy. In this remarkably well written novel, the author tries to enlighten the reader on what made her the mean ...