"WTF Charles?!" Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations, the story of a boy who turns into a man while being surrounded by a**holes, gets the Elton Reads A Book A Week treatment! Join Elton on a trip down Dickensian way before meeting up with a prime example of Victorian drama. It's weirder than you think. The life of Charles Dickens starts like many did in the Georgian Era of England's history...crap. He was a sickly kid from a big, poor family. Then, as he got older and his entire family was thrown in debtor's prison, he was factory bound. There he learned to love to hate every day! Later, he learns to spin sh*t into gold. Listen for more... Thank you for listening! GET THE BOOK HERE: https://amzn.to/44H2ZT5 BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR HERE: https://www.patreon.com/eltonreadsabookaweek https://anchor.fm/elton-reads-a-book-a-week FOLLOW THE PODCAST HERE: https://linktr.ee/EltonReadsABookAWeek EMAIL: [email protected] SOURCES: https://exec.typepad.com/greatexpectations/what-is-a-gentleman.html https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17017791 https://www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk/debtors-prison/#:~:text=It's%20called%20the%20Debtors'%20Prison,them%20to%20be%20held%20here. https://www.charlesdickenspage.com/dickens-and-the-theatre-moskovitz.html https://thebookhabit.co.uk/2018/11/07/literary-lifestyles-the-writing-habits-of-charles-dickens/#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20ensure%20that,keep%20track%20of%20his%20story https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/night-soil-men-victorian-era-poop https://www.gastongazette.com/story/news/2012/11/30/today-in-history-charles-dickens/34378631007/ https://dickenssociety.org/archives/1630 https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/dickens-quarterly https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Dickens-British-novelist THE APOLOGIES SECTION Elton would like to apologize to the following people, places, and things: The Dickens Family, Karl Marx, Victorian & Georgian eras of English history, El Debarge, Boys II Men, Lionel Richie, Portsmouth England, and English dentists. A special thank you to Jenna Fischer and Diedrich Bader