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Monster Essays - Great Expectations
The very title of this book indicates the confidence of conscious
genius. In a new aspirant for public favor, such a title might have
been a good device to attract attention; but the most famous
novelist of the day, watched by jealous rivals and critics, could
hardly have selected it, had he not inwardly felt the capacity to
meet all the expectations he raised. I have read it as it appeared in
installments, and can testify to the felicity with which expectation
was excited and prolonged, and to the series of surprises which
accompanied the unfolding of the plot of the story. In no other of
his romances has the author succeeded so perfectly ....
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