Connell Guide to Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" - Sutherland John
Connell Guide to Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" - Sutherland John Great Expectations is one of the best-selling Victorian novels of our time. It has been as popular with critics as it has…
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Connell Guide to Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" - Sutherland John
Great Expectations is one of the best-selling Victorian novels of our time. It has been as popular with critics as it has with the public. No Dickens work, with the exception of A Christmas Carol, has been adapted more for both film and television.
John Lucas describes it as "the most perfect and the most beautiful of all Dickens's novels", Angus Wilson as "the most completely unified work of art that Dickens ever produced". In 1937, George Bernard Shaw called the novel Dickens's "most compactly perfect book". Great Expectations has been so successful partly because it's an exciting story.
Dickens always had a keen eye on the market and subscribed to Wilkie Collins's advice: "make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, above all make 'em wait." From the violent opening scene on the marshes to the climax of Magwitch's attempted escape on the Thames, the story is full of suspense, mystery and drama.