more to follow. Someone suggested to me earlier today, that the next book will present itself to me. He also mentioned liking David Lean's version of Oliver Twist and that there was a new version of Great Expectations that had recently been made, not out yet. I had been planning on watching the movie versions after reading the books, but I haven't. None of them appealed to me, mostly due to who was starring in them. Maybe the title of the blog should be "Dickens all decade," that did take about a year.
If I don't get around to writing anything else: Pip means to propose to Biddy, but when he finds her, she has just wed Joe. He leaves the country and takes the job with Herbert, earns his living, pays his debt, is gone for 11 years. He returns to visit Joe and Biddy, and while there walks over to the site of the old Satis house (Havisham's). He encounters someone. It's Estella. Drummles was a bad man, but has since died, due to his cruelty to a horse. She is alone.
The final line (in this version) is "and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her." (Chapter 59, Great Expectations-Dickens. The original version did not have a chapter 59, and Estella had married a doctor after the death of Drummles.) I have a couple of other books I'm in the middle of, or rather, have started. Will see which of his I read next, but I'm leaning toward Pickwick Papers. Which means I'll try saving Bleak House for last. Really not looking forward to A Christmas Carol or Oliver Twist, they've just been so overdone, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. I hope so, the project does involve reading all the novels. Still not decided on the short stories. Maybe...we'll see what year it is by that point.
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