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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations (original 1861; edition 2006)

by Charles Dickens

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Pip is content with his simple life until a bitter gentlewoman employs him as a sometime companion to herself and her adopted daughter. Pip then aspires to become a gentleman himself, though his dreams are unrealistic until the day he mysteriously comes into a fortune and is sent to London to become refined. The story follows Pip's journey into adulthood and emotional maturity and understanding.

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Title:Great Expectations
Authors:Charles Dickens
Info:Ann Arbor Media (2006), Hardcover, 480 pages
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)

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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Maiasaura)
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    Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (cbl_tn)
    cbl_tn: Mister Pip explores the reading and interpretation of Great Expectations in a late 20th century South Sea island culture in the midst of a civil war.
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    The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (Bcteagirl)
    Bcteagirl: Thursday Next is a Literary Detective who helps to keep people from changing plots in books, keep book characters from escaping etc. When she goes in for training, who should she be apprenticed to but Miss Havisham who is more than happy to get out of her dreary rooms once and a while. What larks!… (more)
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    Adam Bede by George Eliot (Bcteagirl)
    Bcteagirl: If you enjoyed the 'good hard working pastoral theme' of his uncle and their 'Larks' you may enjoy Adam Bede which has many of the same themes.
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    Jack Maggs by Peter Carey (suzanney, KayCliff)
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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Johanna11)
    Johanna11: Both books write about people with expectations for their future, both are very well written at the end of the nineteenth century.
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    Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (krizia_lazaro)
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    Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (Booksloth)
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    Page 1 Great Expectations by Lucienne Roberts (bluepiano)
    bluepiano: Dozens of ways of seeing and reading the first page of Dickens' book.
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    The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (lucyknows)
    lucyknows: Great Expectations and Bonfire of the Vanities can be successfully tied together in that both the authors explore the themes of ostentation, ambition and morality
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    The Princess Casamassima by Henry James (suniru)
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    Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (Cecrow)
    Cecrow: Also featuring Miss Havisham.
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    An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch (JuliaMaria)
    JuliaMaria: In der Einleitung zu "an unofficial rose" von Anthony D. Nuttall wird Dickens als Vergleich herangezogen: "An Unofficial Rose is indeed a surprisingly Dickensian novel, crowded, superabundant."
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    Pip by Comedy Central (SnootyBaronet)
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    Drood: A Novel by Dan Simmons (caittilynn)
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    Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Anonymous user)
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Long story, twists and turns and view of the past. Worth reading. ( )
  damcg63 | Jan 2, 2025 |
One of Dicken's must-read classics. ( )
  Rasaily | Dec 22, 2024 |
Well, here we are after 18 hours of audiobook time.

I found this novel incredibly boring. I feel as though Dickens could have removed 25 chapters and it would have only increased the speed of this novel by a fraction. I am only giving this 3 stars because there were some memorable moments in the novel and near the end of the novel, the pace picked up. I guess my "great expectations" were not met.

But, even though the novel was extremely long, it showed just how humanity works and how, quite frankly, karma will hit you in the end. A perfect example of a classic novel in British literature. ( )
  aztrains | Oct 13, 2024 |
Book 275 - Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Apart from ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘The Signalman’…I haven’t read any others… until now. ‘Great Expectations’ is outstanding. A true classic. Brilliant characters…that are wonderfully developed… an intriguing tale of loss…emotional loss…love…family love…growth…and perhaps most importantly…why what a person learns, is sometimes more important than what someone is trying to teach.

As we grow up with Pip, in what are indeed hard times..little Mr Dickens joke there…and he grows to trust some of what society sees as the lowest levels of humanity but Pip only sees someone needing a helping hand.

How these lives mingle and crash together years later is brilliant… unnerving…and as is a common trait through Dickens’ novels…oh so real. Loved it..can’t wait for more. ( )
  Jason-StrangeTimes | Oct 9, 2024 |
Great Expectations is both a coming-of-age story and a profound exploration of human desires.
  syedatehniat | Oct 1, 2024 |
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The idea of an innocent boy establishing unconsciously an immense influence over the mind of a hunted felon … haunted Dickens’s imagination until he gathered round it a whole new world of characters and incidents
added by danielx | editThe Atlantic, EP Whipple (Jan 11, 1877)
 

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Neither were my notions of the theological positions to which my Catechism bound me, at all accurate; for, I have a lively remembrance that I supposed my declaration that I was to "walk in the same all the days of my life," laid me under an obligation always to go through the village from our house in one particular direction, and never to vary it by turning down by the wheelwright's or up by the mill.
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...a money-box was kept on the kitchen mantel-shelf, in to which it was publicly made known that all my earnings were dropped. I have an impression that they were to be contributed eventually towards the liquidation of the National Debt, but I know I had no hope of any personal participation in the treasure.
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Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt kept an evening school in the village; that is to say, she was a ridiculous old woman of limited means and unlimited infirmity, who used to go to sleep from six to seven every evening, in the society of youth who paid two pence per week each, for the improving opportunity of seeing her do it.
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I had little objection to his being seen by Herbert or his father, for both of whom I had a respect; but I had the sharpest sensitiveness as to his being seen by Drummle, whom I held in contempt. So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.  (Chapter XXVII)
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Pip is content with his simple life until a bitter gentlewoman employs him as a sometime companion to herself and her adopted daughter. Pip then aspires to become a gentleman himself, though his dreams are unrealistic until the day he mysteriously comes into a fortune and is sent to London to become refined. The story follows Pip's journey into adulthood and emotional maturity and understanding.

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One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life. As a boy, Pip crosses paths with a convict named Magwitch, a man who will heavily influence Pip’s adulthood. Meanwhile, the earnest young man falls for the beautiful Estella, the adoptive daughter of the affluent and eccentric Miss Havisham. Widely considered to be Dickens's last great book, the story is steeped in romance and features the writer's familiar themes of crime, punishment, and societal struggle. 384
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In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters include Magwitch, the fearful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness; and the embittered Miss Havisham, an eccentric jilted bride
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Joe, Miss H. And yours?
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