Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Taste attributes: dramahistoricalromanceslowrealisticlinearemotive & stirringcoming of agerags to richescomplex relationshipsolving the riddle/not as it seems
Boxlist takeA stirring novel, grounded rather than fantastical. Best if you like stories that hit hard.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungsroman; a coming-of-age story). It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
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- Charles Dickens
- Published
- 1861
- Pages
- 482
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