Great Expectations

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Publicerades av Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf, Distributed by Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-679-40579-5
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OCLC-nummer:
24503388

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One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman.

From the young Pip’s first terrifying encounter with the convict Magwitch in the gloom of a graveyard to the splendidly morbid set pieces in Miss Havisham’s mansion to the magnificently realized boat chase down the Thames, Great Expectations is filled with the transcendent excitement that Dickens could so abundantly provide.

Written in 1860, at the height of his maturity, it also reveals the novelist’s bittersweet understanding of the extent to which our deepest moral dilemmas are born of our own obsessions and illusions.

This edition includes Dickens’s original, discarded conclusion to the novel, the 1907 Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton, and twenty illustrations by F. W. Pailthorpe.

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So, my first proper full-length Dickens. I liked it. It's funny, it's got more bite than I expected it to, and the twist in the last third is very well done (far too many coincidences notwithstanding). I do love what he does with all the characters, and how he uses the first-person POV to keep us both in Pip's perspective and let us see where everything goes wrong. In the end it's all a little too convenient for my taste, but I laugh enough an get invested enough for it to work.