Great Expectations
A convict in a graveyard, a stopped clock, and a boy who mistakes money for becoming somebody.
- Listening time
- about 19 h 48 min
- Length
- 184,470 words
- First published
- 1861
- Public domain
- the author died in 1870
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 1.0 MB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- The Long Haul
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How it begins.
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. I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister—Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
Great Expectations · Charles Dickens · 1861
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