May 11, 2020

29. Great Expectations.

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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.

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Bookshop.]

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May 11, 2020

29. Great Expectations.

Listen Later

59 minutes

“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.

...more