# Great Expectations (version 2)

An audiobook by Charles Dickens, read by LibriVox volunteers (17 h 54 min, English).

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)

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/6729)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/1400/read)