Great Expectations • Charles Dickens
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592 pages • Penguin • 26 April, 2012 [HB], originally Chapman & Hall • 1861
Great Expectations is a glorious, mesmerising book about hope, and how that hope is used against people by those who have been disappointed.
Permalink“This tale of great promise, and the disappointment of that promise, is extraordinarily powerful. Throughout his work, Dickens is interested in how people are created by circumstance, as well as the characters that wield circumstance to their own ends.”