Great Expectations: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Great Expectations, credited to Charles Dickens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

This is a LibriVox recording of Great Expectations, read by Mark F. Smith. This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has "great expectations" of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his associations with the gentle souls of his past, Joe (the blacksmith) and Biddy (a level-headed young lady). He throws his money at improving the prospects of his roommate and friend Herbert and his heart at an "ice princess" whose heart will never respond. But then an escaped convict from his distant past comes calling, and all Pip's hopes dissolve. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Great Expectations
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 59
• Listed recording duration: 20:26:03

Catalogue topics

• Fiction
• England

Opening tracks: first 24 of 59

1. 01 — 12:43
2. 02 — 22:36
3. 03 — 12:46
4. 04 — 23:08
5. 05 — 26:08
6. 06 — 5:10
7. 07 — 27:47
8. 08 — 30:55
9. 09 — 18:12
10. 10 — 16:26
11. 11 — 34:34
12. 12 — 14:45
13. 13 — 20:00
14. 14 — 5:30
15. 15 — 28:13
16. 16 — 11:57
17. 17 — 21:15
18. 18 — 33:08
19. 19 — 37:49
20. 20 — 19:57
21. 21 — 12:09
22. 22 — 32:37
23. 23 — 21:04
24. 24 — 15:32

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