About the Book: Great Expectations
Great Expectations may fairly rank among Dickens most powerful works. Among the
highest landmarks of success ever reared for immortality by the triumphant
genius of him, the story of Great Expectations must forever stand eminent beside
that of David Copperfield. A narrative in the first person granting to the
narrator nothing less than Dickens own equipment of genius, preserves
authenticity with remarkable care, nothing being related or as seen heard, which
could not have been seen or heard by the writer. It is refreshing to think of
Dickens in this pleasant interval of country life, before he had rushed once
more into