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McGoohan
McGoohan
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I sort of see it as the flip-side Great Expectations. Both are at some level about the difference between youthful ambitions and the rather grimmer reality. Dickens put a lot more jokes in his story (though Wilkie Collins talked him out of his original, much more downbeat ending).
beebop
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‘Done because we are too many’. Yeah, happy days.
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The ending is not exactly upbeat even with Wilkie Collins' intervention.
McGoohan
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Well, though Pip ends up chastened he still gets to go off into the sunset with Estella. It's a lot more cheerful than Jude's ending.
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My mistake, according to wikipedia it was Bulwer-Lytton who persuaded Dickens to change the ending. My edition has the original ending printed in an appendix so I'll double check - could've sworn Collins was to blame.
The Scribbler
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I love the original ending of Great Expectations. I'm all about the unfulfilled love (what does that say about me?) Like Sharkie says, sometimes it's about when you first read it. Like music, books can resonate with who you were and how you felt 'then'.
Columba
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Where can I read Dickens's original ending?

The existing ending is a bit ambivalent. Estella says they will "continue friends apart", and Pip does not see the shadow of another parting.
McGoohan
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Here's a summary of all the alternates with *some* of the text
exec.typepad.com
LindsD
LindsD
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Finished TTTC. Want to read more of his.
McGoohan
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Even the ending you know has two slightly different forms

'I saw no shadow of another parting from her.'

and

‘I saw the shadow of no parting from her, but one.’

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