What joy it brings to me to see perhaps Charles Dickens’ greatest work and my favorite Dickens’ novel “Great Expectations” in its original serial illustrated form. I have seen various movie and TV adaptations. Some of my favorites are the David Lean 1946 version with a young Jean Simmons as young Estella, the gritty BBC miniseries with Ioan Gruffudd, and the 2012 movie with Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, I tried to watch the Ethan Hawke version set in modern days but I proverbially threw a brick at the TV when Estella decided to sleep with Pip called Finn in this movie. That one moment destroyed the whole point of the Pip-Estella story line. I wold imagine perhaps people reading this was a type of escape from all the political turmoil engulfing the United States.
Would people be interested in using the serial publication of “Great Expectations” for book club type discussion here? We could read the chapters and comment.