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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens: Revised Edition [Paperback(2002)] | Charles Dickens
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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic (…more)
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This is the first Dickens novel I‘ve read and will probably be the last. Between the prolific use of dialect and characters I could not relate to and a rather nutty story, I just didn‘t enjoy it or connect to this work. I understand it‘s a classic and really, that‘s why I read it, but I‘m not sure Dickens‘ style is for me. Then again, I suppose works of fiction further removed from our own setting are harder to like anyway.