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| Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Longman
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 1227
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0141439564
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780141439563
ASIN: 0141439564
Publication Date: February 16, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Cover is tatty but all pages are intact and clean
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| Customer Reviews:
 Twists and turns galore September 21, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pip- the protagonist in the novel comes into "great expectations" through an unknown benefactor who Pip and the reader are lead to believe is Miss Havisham. I like the way Dicken's makes Pip not an especially nice charather in the way he deals with his family after he gets influenced by money.
 boring as hell September 20, 2007
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
Christ what a struggle; I've tried listening to this on audio as well as reading it, but it's just dire. Grim, boring, and slow. I was halfway through my latest attempt to listen to it on CD in the car and I just couldn't take any more. I chucked it out the window, and ended up listening to the only other disc I had in the car - The Bratz! If an adult who's a serious music fan and blues enthusiast would rather listen to that than torture themselves with this book, well I guess that shows you what the book's like. Avoid at all costs.
 You can never go wrong with Dickens May 25, 2007
How nice to reread an old classic as an adult, instead of in the classroom. A wonderful novel of Pip who comes into his "great expectations" via an unknown benefactor -- who he believes to be Miss Havisham. We see how the influence of money and position affect Pip's relations with his family and former neighbors, and not necessarily for the better. There are lots of surprise twists and turns in the plot, especially about Miss Havisham and her adopted "daughter" Estella and her true parentage.
As always, a Dickens novel is peopled with wonderful and unusual characters that eventually all play a part in telling the story. I noticed another reviewer said there were two endings. The version I read had only one ending and I don't know which one it was. I will have to search out another version to see which I liked best.
TIMELESS May 9, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A wonderful tome that captures the moment without lingering in the past.
Dickens is the greatest storyteller in history.
Live by the sword - die by the sword...PROOF that the pen is mightier than the sword.
It does it for me everytime........ April 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have a handful of books I can read over and again and this is top of the list, it may even be my desert island choice. The descriptive passages are wonderful and the characters are so richly painted. Pip and Joe is the best relationship - some funny moments, sad moments and some really heartbreaking moments. Every time I get to the part where Pip thinks he is too good for Joe and Joe irritates him it makes my skin crawl. Estella is a wonderful character, cruel, cold and twisted but not her fault and she ends up in a sad situation. Miss Havisham - a truly creepy lady, what an excellent creation. The story is fabulous with such a great ending - who would have thought? This book is absolutely fantastic. Brilliant characters, described so well that the most unimaginative reader will have vivid mental images of them all and you won't forgot them or this book. Ever.
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