Great Expectations

Pocketbok, 560 sidor

På English

Publicerades 31 december 2006 av Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-102353-3
Kopierade ISBN!
OCLC-nummer:
62225082

Visa i OpenLibrary

The adventures of an orphaned young man in Victorian England who is given a great deal of money by an unknown benefactor to enable him to live as a gentleman, pursuing a good education and fulfilling great expectations.

75 utgåvor

None

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.

Ämnen

  • Social conditions
  • Fiction

Platser

  • England