Everyman's Library Classics: Great Expectations: Introduction by Michael Slater (Hardcover)

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I chose to write a review of Great Expectations because I wanted to be able to rate a novel "five-stars" without an ounce of hesitation. Context: I'm not by any means some sort of an intellect. Lik...

from ClarinetPiano

Descriptive language is excellent.M

from jeff.maynes

Great Expectations is many things, but above all it is a reflection on the influence of money, prestige and station on a young person, and a carefully layered and constructed mystery. It is at once...

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Pip is a young orphan living with his austere sister and her gentle blacksmith husband, Joe. Though his sister badgers and throttles him mercilessly, Pip finds affection, acceptance and a measure o...

from TineOliver

Perhaps the most apt novel title in literature. Great expectations is, at its most basic level, all about Pip's expectations. What makes it a worthy read, especially without prior knowledge of the ...