Dickens warmest novel (Great Expectations - Charles Dickens)

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Product:	Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Date:	06/10/01 (196 review reads)
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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 Dicken’s best-loved novels.

In Great Expectations Dicken’s 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.

First serialized in the journal All Year Round in 1861, Great Expectations is regarded by many as Dicken’s finest achievement. Angus Wilson regarded it as “one of Dicken’s warmest novels”, but it is clear from his friend and biographer, John Forster, that the original ending was changed in favour of a happier one.

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