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Considered by many to be Charles Dickens's finest novel, Great Expectations traces . Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was the widely popular author of such classic novels as Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, and David Copperfield.

Considered by many to be Charles Dickens's finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator. Series: Tantor Unabridged Classics.

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Considered by many to be Charles Dickens's finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from . 18 hours & 30 min. 2 CDs. Read by Simon Vance

Considered by many to be Charles Dickens's finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. Read by Simon Vance. Great Expectations Unabridged Audiobook on MP3-CD (9781400156320) by Charles Dickens.

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Narrated by: Simon Vance. Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins. Great expectations personified. This is the second book by Charles Dickens I have read and the second Audible book I have listened to, (The first being Billy Budd by Herman Melville). The change in voices, the intonation of the narrative gave me the impression I was being read to by Charles Dickens himself.

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel, that depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (a bildungsroman). It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.

One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman

One of Charles Dickens’s most fascinating novels, Great Expectations follows the orphan Pip as he leaves behind a childhood of misery and poverty after an anonymous benefactor offers him a chance at the life of a gentleman. The classic novel was one of its author’s greatest critical and popular successes. On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard, while visiting the graves of his parents and siblings. Pip now lives with his abusive elder sister and her kind husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith.

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Great Expectations book. In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman - and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations.

Dickens’s haunting late novel depicts Pip’s education and development through adversity as he discovers the true nature of his ‘great expectations’. Kieli: Englanti Kategoria: Klassikot Kääntäjä: Lisätietoa e-kirjasta

Charles Dickens' great bildungsroman was serialized from December 1, 1860 until August 3, 1861 in his own magazine, All the Year Round (see a scan of the original issue here).

Charles Dickens' great bildungsroman was serialized from December 1, 1860 until August 3, 1861 in his own magazine, All the Year Round (see a scan of the original issue here). Written at the height of the novelist’s powers, the novel was almost universally praised and was considered Dickens’s most compactly perfect, by the critic and playwright George Bernard Shaw.