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Great Expectations

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This is the most acclaimed works of Dickens. 'Great Expectations' is the biography of Philip Pirrip or Pip whose dream is to be a gentleman.Pip, the main character of the novel is an apprentice to Joe, his uncle and best friend. He is well contented till the time he gets the desire to be a gentleman. His chance comes when he is named as the beneficiary to some amount of fortune.

Dickens, in this book of his examines the human nature, how vulnerable we are to the call of money. The great author brings out how Pip makes fair-weather friends when he comes to fortune, how he forgets his roots and his good old true friend Joe. Besides that 'Great Expectations' depicts also the love of Pip for a certain girl named Estella, for whose sake he wanted to be a gentleman.

If you've been asking yourself what is the meaning of true love, then read this fabulous book, it will help you to find the meaning of it to some extent. 'Great Expectations' is one of those books that after reading you will feel the self-satisfaction still lingering in your heart for quite a long while.

Great plot. Very intruging. I would recommend this book to anyone who is over nine and loves classics.

I tried to read this book a few years ago, and then, in ninth grade (two years ago), I was forced to for English Lit.
I read, for want of a better word, ravenously. At any given time I am reading three or four books simultaneously. Traditional classics, modern classics, modern novels, it doesn't matter. So I am not, by any standards, illiterate, something that, going on the review I am about to give, one might assume.
Dickens is so incredibly overrated. His books are, in the words of a friend of mine, books that "everybody wants to have read buy nobody wants to read". I am of the opinion that few people like Dickens because they like his books, they just say they like him because he's Dickens and let's face it- would you admit to someone that you didn't like Great Expectations? A Tale of Two Cities? He is one of those authors that are generally accepted as being good, and my opinion is that his popularity has been riding on that reputation. This book makes for an interesting book summary, but that's the extent of its charm. The descriptions are without imagination and almost made me fall asleep. Dickens wrote this book as a serial in a newspaper, making it up as he went along, and it really shows.