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"Thorough, well-considered, clear, incisive and complete, the Companion to 'Great Expectations' gives readers everything needed for its full appreciation. It is a comprehensive and enjoyable work of reference and scholarhip about Dickens as well as the novel, precisely mapped and illustrated. It takes the student through the novel's origins, completion, dense allusions, and what Graham Greene calls its 'secret prose'. We are shown it directly: written about an earlier period and addressed to its time."--K.J Fielding
"Paroissien's passion for finding the illuminating detail and for getting the detail right is evident. ... readers will find Paroissien's companionship rich in research and of breath-taking fullness."--Patrick MacCarthy, Dickens list-serv (online)
"The Dickens Companions are clearly indispensible to the scholar."--Modern Language Review (from review of 'The Companion to A Tale of Two Cities')
"The Companion to Great Expectations will remain a landmark study for students of the novel, for many years to come."--Dickens Quarterly
..". If in any doubt, consult 'The Companion to "Great Expectations"' by David Paroissien, an extraordinary behind-the-scenes tour of Dickens's novel ..."--Times Literary Supplement
"Thorough, well-considered, clear, incisive and complete, the Companion to 'Great Expectations' gives readers everything needed for its full appreciation. It is a comprehensive and enjoyable work of reference and scholarhip about Dickens as well as the novel, precisely mapped and illustrated. It takes the student through the novel's origins, completion, dense allusions, and what Graham Greene calls its 'secret prose'. We are shown it directly: written about an earlier period and addressed to its time."--K.J Fielding
"Paroissien's passion for finding the illuminating detail and for getting the detail right is evident. ... readers will find Paroissien's companionship rich in research and of breath-taking fullness."--Patrick MacCarthy, Dickens list-serv (online)
"The Dickens Companions are clearly indispensible to the scholar."--Modern Language Review (from review of 'The Companion to A Tale of Two Cities')
"The Companion to Great Expectations will remain a landmark study for students of the novel, for many years to come."--Dickens Quarterly
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