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One of the most swiftly moving and unified of Charles Dickens’s great novels

In this masterpiece of nature writing

Great Expectations is both an emotionally resonant coming-of-age story and a rich novel of ideas

even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles

Dying is Easier than Loving scotland One of the most swiftlyThe novel centers on the story of Nizams tormented love affair with a Russian pianist, Anya, and is told against the backdrop of the Ottoman Empires tumultuous history in the years leading up to WWI. Underlying the novels tale of war and love and Altans absorbing exploration of the inner lives of a vast cast of characters, is a fierce criticism of masculinity and of its degeneration into violence against women, nationalism, and authoritarianism.