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Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

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Language
English
First published
1861
Reading time
801 minutes
Chapters
59 chapters

About this book

Pip is an orphan boy growing up on the misty Kent marshes with his sharp-tempered sister and her gentle husband Joe, the village blacksmith.

One evening in the churchyard he is seized by an escaped convict, and not long afterwards he is sent to play at the gloomy house of the strange Miss Havisham, where he falls for the proud and beautiful Estella. Told by Pip himself, looking back on his life, Dickens's novel is a story of ambition, money, snobbery and loyalty, full of unforgettable characters and dark humour. Read it for its suspense and its warm, wise heart.

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Chapter I

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    Project Gutenberg (eBook #1400)

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    Project Gutenberg eBook #1400 (updated 17 December 2024), downloaded 7 November 2026, from the 1867 edition. The title page, the contents list and the file's bare illustration markers (it has no pictures or captions) were not imported; the 59 chapters are unchanged, except that the full stop after each chapter number in the headings was dropped.

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    Public domain

    Copyright status last verified: 9 November 2026

  • Category

    Classic Novels

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Chapters

59 chapters
  1. Chapter I8 min
  2. Chapter II15 min
  3. Chapter III9 min
  4. Chapter IV15 min
  5. Chapter V19 min
  6. Chapter VI4 min
  7. Chapter VII18 min
  8. Chapter VIII21 min
  9. Chapter IX12 min
  10. Chapter X11 min
  11. Chapter XI24 min
  12. Chapter XII10 min
  13. Chapter XIII13 min
  14. Chapter XIV4 min
  15. Chapter XV19 min
  16. Chapter XVI9 min
  17. Chapter XVII15 min
  18. Chapter XVIII22 min
  19. Chapter XIX25 min
  20. Chapter XX14 min
  21. Chapter XXI8 min
  22. Chapter XXII22 min
  23. Chapter XXIII14 min
  24. Chapter XXIV10 min
  25. Chapter XXV13 min
  26. Chapter XXVI13 min
  27. Chapter XXVII13 min
  28. Chapter XXVIII11 min
  29. Chapter XXIX22 min
  30. Chapter XXX15 min
  31. Chapter XXXI10 min
  32. Chapter XXXII10 min
  33. Chapter XXXIII12 min
  34. Chapter XXXIV11 min
  35. Chapter XXXV14 min
  36. Chapter XXXVI11 min
  37. Chapter XXXVII13 min
  38. Chapter XXXVIII22 min
  39. Chapter XXXIX22 min
  40. Chapter XL23 min
  41. Chapter XLI10 min
  42. Chapter XLII13 min
  43. Chapter XLIII9 min
  44. Chapter XLIV13 min
  45. Chapter XLV13 min
  46. Chapter XLVI13 min
  47. Chapter XLVII12 min
  48. Chapter XLVIII12 min
  49. Chapter XLIX16 min
  50. Chapter L7 min
  51. Chapter LI13 min
  52. Chapter LII9 min
  53. Chapter LIII23 min
  54. Chapter LIV25 min
  55. Chapter LV13 min
  56. Chapter LVI10 min
  57. Chapter LVII22 min
  58. Chapter LVIII14 min
  59. Chapter LIX7 min

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