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29. Great Expectations.
“If I could have settled down,” I said to Biddy, plucking up the short grass
within reach, much as I had once upon a time pulled my feelings out of my hair
and kicked them into the brewery wall,—“if I could have settled down and been
but half as fond of the forge as I was when I was little, I know it would have
been much better for me. You and I and Joe would have wanted nothing then, and
Joe and I would perhaps have gone partners when I was out of my time, and I
might even have grown up to keep company with you, and we might have sat on
this very bank on a fine Sunday, quite different people. I should have been
good enough for you; shouldn’t I, Biddy?”
Biddy sighed as she looked at the ships sailing on, and returned for answer,
“Yes; I am not over-particular.” It scarcely sounded flattering, but I knew
she meant well.
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations is the
tale of Philip Pirrip, better known as Pip, a young blacksmith’s apprentice
who unexpectedly finds he has been given the means to become a gentleman of
leisure. Who is his mysterious benefactor? Will this change of station ruin
Pip, or will he become enough of a gentleman to win the heart of his beloved
Estella? And why are we spending so much time around nineteenth-century
London’s criminal class?
Show Notes.
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations.
[Gutenberg.
Librivox.
Bookshop.]
George Orwell: Charles Dickens.
The Muppet Christmas Carol.
Our episodes on Little Women,
Frankenstein, The
Jungle, and the
Decameron.
Some excellent analysis of Great Expectations from The Toast (RIP), including:
Every Meal In Great Expectations, Ranked In Order Of How Upsetting It
Is
Alternate Endings To Great Expectations
Miss Havisham: A History
Charles Dickens’ Internet Search History
Next: William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair.
[Gutenberg.
Librivox.
Bookshop.]
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“If I could have settled down,” I said to Biddy, plucking up the short grass
within reach, much as I had once upon a time pulled my feelings out of my hair
and kicked them into the brewery wall,—“if I could have settled down and been
but half as fond of the forge as I was when I was little, I know it would have
been much better for me. You and I and Joe would have wanted nothing then, and
Joe and I would perhaps have gone partners when I was out of my time, and I
might even have grown up to keep company with you, and we might have sat on
this very bank on a fine Sunday, quite different people. I should have been
good enough for you; shouldn’t I, Biddy?”
Biddy sighed as she looked at the ships sailing on, and returned for answer,
“Yes; I am not over-particular.” It scarcely sounded flattering, but I knew
she meant well.
Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations is the
tale of Philip Pirrip, better known as Pip, a young blacksmith’s apprentice
who unexpectedly finds he has been given the means to become a gentleman of
leisure. Who is his mysterious benefactor? Will this change of station ruin
Pip, or will he become enough of a gentleman to win the heart of his beloved
Estella? And why are we spending so much time around nineteenth-century
London’s criminal class?
Show Notes.
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations.
[Gutenberg.
Librivox.
Bookshop.]
George Orwell: Charles Dickens.
The Muppet Christmas Carol.
Our episodes on Little Women,
Frankenstein, The
Jungle, and the
Decameron.
Some excellent analysis of Great Expectations from The Toast (RIP), including:
Every Meal In Great Expectations, Ranked In Order Of How Upsetting It
Is
Alternate Endings To Great Expectations
Miss Havisham: A History
Charles Dickens’ Internet Search History
Next: William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair.
[Gutenberg.
Librivox.
Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
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