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Great Expectations (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
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bookshelves: all-timefavorites, educational-challenge-2014, literaryfiction, own, theclassics
Feb 22, 2022
bookshelves: all-timefavorites, educational-challenge-2014, literaryfiction, own, theclassics
Read 2 times. Last read February 12, 2022 to February 21, 2022.
The first Dickens I ever read! Way back in 2000! I borrowed it from my sister, because I had never read a book by Boz, and she was like, WHAAAAT, this is the BESSST!
So good!
More humorous than some of his novels, but definitely bittersweet. Pip is a very human character. He's fully realized as a child, and as he grows into a young man he continues to contain multitudes: he's a bit of an asshole and spends too much money, shuns people who might embarrass him, but also secretly helps a friend in financial need, and yearns for the childhood friendship he had with that big sweetheart, Jo. Miss Havisham in her bridal finery is so terrifying and so sad, Magwitch is much the same.
I can see why this is the one that gets taught the most in schools, and is called the most accessible. It's got plenty of quirky characters, like Miss Havisham and Mr. Wemmick (Oh, my gosh! The Aged Parent! The moveable property! The Post Office!), and the Pockets, but it's also got a lot to say about fair weather friends, and social class distinctions of the time. It would make for some great discussions, without students having to know the ins and outs of the debtors' prisons, say.
So good!
More humorous than some of his novels, but definitely bittersweet. Pip is a very human character. He's fully realized as a child, and as he grows into a young man he continues to contain multitudes: he's a bit of an asshole and spends too much money, shuns people who might embarrass him, but also secretly helps a friend in financial need, and yearns for the childhood friendship he had with that big sweetheart, Jo. Miss Havisham in her bridal finery is so terrifying and so sad, Magwitch is much the same.
I can see why this is the one that gets taught the most in schools, and is called the most accessible. It's got plenty of quirky characters, like Miss Havisham and Mr. Wemmick (Oh, my gosh! The Aged Parent! The moveable property! The Post Office!), and the Pockets, but it's also got a lot to say about fair weather friends, and social class distinctions of the time. It would make for some great discussions, without students having to know the ins and outs of the debtors' prisons, say.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
(Paperback Edition)
January 29, 2008
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(Paperback Edition)
January 29, 2008
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theclassics
(Paperback Edition)
January 24, 2022
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to-read
January 24, 2022
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February 12, 2022
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Started Reading
February 21, 2022
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Finished Reading
February 22, 2022
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all-timefavorites
February 22, 2022
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educational-challenge-2014
February 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
literaryfiction
February 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
own
February 22, 2022
– Shelved as:
theclassics
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Feb 23, 2022 06:47AM
Your excitement in your review is contagious! I might just have to read Great Expectations! :) Did you hear that BBC is making a 6-parter about this book?
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Gabby wrote: "Your excitement in your review is contagious! I might just have to read Great Expectations! :) Did you hear that BBC is making a 6-parter about this book?"Another one?! There's a ton of versions of this, the most recent one is probably less than ten years old! Still, I do love me a good BBC miniseries!
