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9-1-2008
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READ poster featured: Michael Claxton, English
Book selected: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Date poster was featured: September 2008
Comments by Michael Claxton about the book:
"One of the enduring classics in the English language, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan who comes into a surprise inheritance that changes his life. The story features escaped convicts, mysterious lawyers, and a woman who hasn’t changed clothes in 20 years. It is a beautifully plotted and richly symbolic novel, which is all the more amazing because Dickens wrote it as a weekly serial, publishing one installment before he had written the next one. He managed to keep a complex plot, huge cast of wonderfully eccentric characters, and interwoven patterns of imagery all going at once, without being able to go back and revise the chapters that had already been published. It’s a tour de force and a must read.”
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