Full archive of the "Great Expectations" book club
We read Dickens in the winter of 2023-2024. Audrey Van Buskirk led this club with me
Here is the full video archive of FrizzLit’s Great Expectations book club, which ran November 2023-January 2024.
To see other full recordings of past book clubs — reading Flannery O’Connor, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, and others — just click on the new Book-club video archives tab.
I’ll be adding the recent Jane Eyre club to the full recordings archive soon!
Above you can see where Great Expectations is set. You can also see Portsmouth, where Dickens was born.
If you’ve never read Great Expectations and want to dive in, or if you want to reread it and follow along, here’s the reading schedule we used.
The week numbers on the far left — Week 1, Week 2, etc. — correspond with the recordings you will find below.
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Watch the recordings
You can watch the 9 classes below. Each is 1.5 hours long.
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Here are the nine weeks of videos — plus stories and insights about Dickens’s life, his characters, and his writing career. And all of our reactions to the novel as we read it together.
Enjoy!