English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1405 short lesson, about 20 seconds
David Copperfield and Great Expectations
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The idea
David Copperfield, of eighteen fifty, partly autobiographical, was Dickens's favourite of his books. Great Expectations, serialized in eighteen sixty and sixty-one, is a bildungsroman about the education of an orphan, Pip. Both are narrated in the first person by the grown hero.
In practice
Two orphans tell their own lives.
Where people slip
The older narrator judges his younger self.
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