[Isis]

Titania,
Thanks so much for your fabulous review of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. I re-read it about a year and a half ago and was blown away yet again by what a wonderful writer Dickens is and what a phenomenal tale the story encompasses. There are both fairy-tale elements with the descriptions of the larger-than-life, withered Miss Havisham and her rotting twenty-year-old wedding gown and rotten cake covered with spiders and cobwebs and Pip's mysterious benefactor who grants Pip's heart's desire to be a gentleman so that he'll be good enough for Estella. And what a long-suffering love Pip has for Estella in spite of her heartlessness! I loved that description of Pip's feelings for her that you quoted. It was one of the passages I love most in the entire book. Just as it is for you, Great Expectations remains one of my all-time favorite books.

Isis~