Great expectations, Charles Dickens
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Great expectations, Charles Dickens
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Great expectations
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Charles Dickens
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Who can forget Miss Havisham, terrifying as she molders in the ruined shrine to her aborted wedding day? Dickens's gift was to paint characters whose dilemmas, though often shocking, ring true, and to place them in a moral universe as compelling as the landscapes that represent it. Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip, who is left a mysterious fortune and comes of age as he deals with the ambiguous consequences of his inheritance. From the novel's opening, when Pip encounters the convict Magwitch amid the swirling fog on the marshes, we strive with Pip to unravel the mystery he is drawn into and urge him to save himself from the fate of the beautiful Estella, raised to have no heart. Dickens is all heart; we laugh while we learn
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