Great Expectations: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 59 original MP3 tracks, 17:53:53 running time and a link to listen.
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:
LibriVox recording of Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. Read by Peter John Keeble. 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)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Great Expectations
- Author credits: Charles Dickens
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 59
- Listed recording duration: 17:53:53
Catalogue topics
- Journey of childhood to adulthood
- Discovering true self
- determining personal sets of values in the complex world of early Victorian England
Opening tracks: first 24 of 59
- 01 - Chapter I — 11:29
- 02 - Chapter II — 20:43
- 03 - Chapter III — 10:49
- 04 - Chapter IV — 20:46
- 05 - Chapter V — 22:59
- 06 - Chapter VI — 4:29
- 07 - Chapter VII — 23:09
- 08 - Chapter VIII — 28:36
- 09 - Chapter IX — 16:04
- 10 - Chapter X — 15:12
- 11 - Chapter XI — 30:07
- 12 - Chapter XII — 13:07
- 13 - Chapter XIII — 17:31
- 14 - Chapter XIV — 5:07
- 15 - Chapter XV — 24:51
- 16 - Chapter XVI — 11:48
- 17 - Chapter XVII — 18:49
- 18 - Chapter XVIII — 29:48
- 19 - Chapter XIX — 32:54
- 20 - Chapter XX — 17:55
- 21 - Chapter XXI — 10:10
- 22 - Chapter XXII — 28:15
- 23 - Chapter XXIII — 18:36
- 24 - Chapter XXIV — 12:45
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