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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Start date: July 1, 2023

Finish date: July 31, 2023

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Oct 27, 2019 Rianto Dermawan rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction

Charles Dickens asal Inggris tidak banyak mengenyam pendidikan sekolah tetapi menjadi penulis dengan kreativitas fiksi yang tinggi. Banyak tulisannya mengandung kritik sosial tentang ketidakadilan , pendidikan dan hak anak . Karyanya tetap relevan dan menjadi referensi di zaman modern sekarang. Novel klasik ini diterbitkan pertama kali tahun 1861.

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Apr 24, 2021 Kathleen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: utgc-book-club, historical-fiction

Where do I start? This was a reread for me. To my best recollection I was an eighth grader reading this for the first time. So much more meaningful to me this time, I can’t help but want to look back at other youthful reads that went right over my head.

A meaningful quote :
“...our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.” Wow! Charles Dickens could really cut to the chase in one sentence!

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