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Great Expectations

by Charlotte Mitchell, Angus Calder, Margaret Cardwell, Monica Kulling, Timothy Seward, Rick Geary

A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a mysterious benefactor - these form a series of events that change the orphaned Pip's life forever, and he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.... (more)

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Lord Manleigh
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If most Dickens novels are symphonies, “Great Expectations” is a string quartet. In a minor key. Probably by Schubert. The book is one of his shortest; it’s taut as a noose, and this dark fable glows like an emerald bracelet coiled around Estella’s ivory wrist.

Pip is all of us. Who among us has reached maturity untouched by similar yearnings, embarrassments, ambitions? And who among us has not seen the bitter ghost of Miss Havisham flickering behind his pupils as he pondered...

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Antoinette P
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I have read many books that I didn't like, but there has only been ONE that I've HATED! And it's this book! Ugh, it was AWFUL! The whole story made me grimace!

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