Charles Dickens wrote 'Great Expectations' to sell weekly magazines. The result is a five-hundred-page classic you can finish ...
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Great Expectations" (Hogarth), the debut novel of New Yorker essayist and theater critic Vinson Cunningham, a young ...
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