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A fine piece of portable property

Advantages: Beautiful written, timeless story
Disadvantages: Language may be too florid and obscure for some readers.

Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens' best loved stories and for good reason. The original serialisation of many of his works can give them a rather fragmented feel but this holds together very well as one of his most coherent and tightly written ...

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Expectations exceeded! Dickens' best novel!

Advantages: Characters are exceptional.
Disadvantages: Quite lengthy.

Great Expectations The novel Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, follows a young, socially inexperienced boy through his journey of disillusionment and morally incorrect choices. These choices ultimately end with his inability to adapt to life and ...

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I've had GREATER EXPECTATIONS From A Dick...

Advantages: A good read, and fantastic characters!
Disadvantages: Too much description. Typically Dickens.

Great Expectations was first published in a newspaper over a space of weeks. That’s while you’ll find in different chapters that it seems like Dickens is reminding you of the characters, because after a week, people forgot different characters ...

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A Work of Art

Advantages: interesting, gripping narrative, vivid description of characters
Disadvantages: too long

If you have a voracious appetite for reading quality books, especially fiction, you cannot give ‘Great Expectations’ a miss. The book written by Charles Dickens has a rather interesting narrative that is likely to keep you engrossed! I finished reading ...

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Great Expectations, Dickens' Masterpiece Novel

Advantages: Great Novel, alot of tension
Disadvantages: Very Long and in three voumes.

Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens best and well known work, and in my review i will be analyzing the characters, places and themes throughout the book. Dickens often wrote about children and this is no exception in this novel. Firstly the ma ...

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