From Mr Pip I moved to reading Great Expectations yet again. I love Dickens but, folks, this is the book for people who think they hate him. Take out Pumblechook and Wopsle and the book seems 'un-Dickensian'. On every re-read I find more in it and it's the style which is so impressive, the beautiful elegiac voice so very modern for a book published
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