(Posted for Ann Roberts)
I started reading this book before Christmas and finished up
just after the New Year. I’ve always
liked to read Dickens when it’s cold and dreary and I’m pretty sure this was my
first reading of Great Expectations.
I’ve seen film adaptations before so I knew the plot line, as does everyone,
I’m sure. What I had forgotten is how wonderfully funny Dickens' writing is. So
while Great Expectations is a tale of
class discrimination, heartbreak, and
entrapment, it is also filled with kindness and sweetness in the characters of
Joe, Biddy, Wemmick and the aged P., and
hilarity in the characters of the Pockets, Mr. Wopsle, and Uncle Pumblechook.
I’m sure I’ll be reading Dickens next Christmas.
Hardback, 598 p.
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