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Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles · ~926 min total
Chapter I.
Chapters (59)
Chapter I.
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About Great Expectations
Young Pip meets an escaped convict in a graveyard, then years later becomes a gentleman through an anonymous benefactor. The most psychologically rich of Dickens’s novels.
Why it works as an audiobook
First-person narration plus Dickens’s cadenced prose — written for serialization to be read aloud weekly to Victorian families — is exactly the format that makes a great audiobook.
- Genre: Bildungsroman
- Themes: coming-of-age, social mobility, unrequited love, Victorian literature
- Approximate length: 18 hours
- Source: Project Gutenberg #1400 (public domain)
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Who wrote Great Expectations?
Great Expectations was written by Charles Dickens. It was first published in 1861.
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