Great Expectations audiobook
by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often painful experiences, to adulthood. It charts his progress as he moves from the Kent marshes – his social status radically changed having gained an unknown benefactor – to busy commercial London. The book is richly populated with a variety of extraordinary characters many of whom, unbeknownst to them, have lives that are inextricably linked to the others. It is all there, love, hate, passion, humour, rejection, duplicity, betrayal, a whole gamut of emotions and human strengths and weaknesses . This is one of Dickens most fascinating, and disturbing novels. (Summary by Peter Keeble)
| Great Expectations | |
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 Title page of Vol. 1 of first edition, July 1861 |
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| Author(s) | Charles Dickens |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Weekly: 1 December 1860 – 3 August 1861 |
| Genre(s) | Realistic fiction, social criticism |
| Publisher | Chapman & Hall |
| Publication date | 1861 (in three volumes) |
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