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From: USA Today
Date: 20020901
Author:Sharrett, Christopher

I WAS ON SABBATICAL during the spring 2002 semester, writing a monograph and catching up on reading that the school year's teaching obligations often prohibit. I revisited many old favorites-the cherished novels of Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and Joseph Conrad. I was always especially fond of Dickens, and today believe more than ever that Great Expectations is not only his supreme achievement, but one of the greatest European novels. I also went back to some of the cinema renderings of Dickens. There has been a notion that, for a literary work ...

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