The Literary Hoof: "Great Expectations" on PBS Is a Classic Tour de Forge

Who's teaching whom? You'll have to read Great Expectations to learn what the young apprentice and his master were studying here. (Image scanned by Philip V. Allingham of Victorian Web.)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was written before
subtitles became commonly used. If it had one, it would be "Or: Be
careful what you wish for".



If you have never read Great Expectations (when
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