|
|
Amazon.com's Price: $8.00 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9780141439563 Edition: Revised ISBN: 0141439564 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: December 31, 2002 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A High School Senior's Review...Like many other reviewers, I read this book because it is a requirement in many English classes. Although the plot becomes interesting at times, the majority of it is filler. The book is filled with pointless characters and chapters devoted to run-ons of Pip's thoughts. Because the book was written so long ago, it is also very difficult to connect with. The character relationships are annoying. The romance between Pip and Estella becomes very hard to believe, because Estella is ... Read More Rating: - Must Read Victorian NovelI recommend this book to anyone who is interested in reading a Dickens novel but not sure where to start. I moved around to so many different high schools that I never was "forced" to read any Dickens and somehow also missed this in college. I just finished this book and I have to admit I did not "breeze through it" but I did take a week to read it in small increments and felt it was worth the effort. Some of the terms are no longer in use or would be rarely used in today's world; the use of the ... Read More Rating: - A Novel of tears as well as laughter. An enjoyable classic.Great Expectations is one of Dickens's later novels, a work of his artistic maturity. The narrative is symbolic rather than realistic. Although, as in most of Dickens and in Victorian literature in general, the plot relies heavily on coincidence, it is acceptable here because the events are true to the internal, psychological, logic of the story. Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a boy who starts as an orphan who moves on to apprenticeship in the business world of nineteenth-century ... Read More Rating:  - Expectations Greatly ExceededWho knew that a book written almost 150 years ago could be so great? Not me. Granted, part of the reason I enjoyed this book so much was because I had expected it not to be (A Tale of Two Cities is still collecting dust on my bookshelf). The writing is flawless; characters, wonderfully varied; and plot, save an occasional feeling of contrivance at the almost uncanny character interconnections, spectacular. Pip, an orphan, lives with his 20 plus years older sister Georgiana "Mrs. Joe" Gargery, ... Read More Rating: - Expect Great ThingsI agonized through this book in HS and have recently breezed through it. About 30 years have passed in between. What I was most struck by in my second reading was how relevant the story was to our own times. Child abuse and emotionally damaging relationships, celebrity lawyers, prison reform, the dangers of easy credit, how easily a person can dispose of their past identity. Dickens wrote about this 140+ years ago but he could have been writing about the present day. Yes, a reader has to warm up to the ... Read More |
