Howard Jacobson - As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's gr...

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As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.

Howard Jacobson

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Was "Great Expectations" angeht, so ist es für mich mit den größten Romanen der Welt an der Reihe, nicht zuletzt, da sie die Verschwörung so rechtfertigen lässt wie kein anderer Roman, den ich mir vorstellen kann, da das, was herauszufinden ist, kein Zufall oder Zufall ist, sondern der tiefste moralische Wahrheit

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