Great Expectations (Version 3): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Great Expectations (Version 3), 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 (Version 3) by Charles Dickens. Read in English by Mil Nicholson In one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years. Pip grows up with his older sister after losing his parents at a very early age. His sister, a tough unloving woman, rules Pip and her gentle husband Joe with an iron hand. During Pip's 7th year, while playing in the marshes, he is accosted by an escaped criminal whom he decides to help by stealing food from his own home. But the convict is caught and returned to prison. Miss Havisham, an eccentric, rich recluse, sends for Pip to come to her house to play with Estella, a haughty and rude girl about his age. Although Pip is ashamed of himself as a poor uneducated boy, he is fascinated by Estella. A few years later, he becomes apprenticed to Joe, a blacksmith, but dreams of becoming rich and clever and marrying Estella. A stranger, Mr. Jaggers, arrives to inform him that he has come into a handsome property, and will be removed from his present home to be brought up as a gentleman. The benefactor is kept secret, but Pip is sure it must be Miss Havisham. In London, he acquires a tutor, grand new clothes and the lifestyle he always wanted. However, life is complicated as a gentleman in society, and he finds himself very unhappy, as Estella remains indifferent to him, involved with someone else. Pip begins overspending his generous allowance, and worse, spurns his old friends. Then unexpected problems from his past arise, and begin to transform his attitude. (Summary by Mil Nicholson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Great Expectations (Version 3)
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 59
• Listed recording duration: 20:12:38

Catalogue topics

• dickens
• London
• england
• classic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 59

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 13:03
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 21:30
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 12:48
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 22:29
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 26:50
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 4:58
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 27:06
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 31:20
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 18:35
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 16:35
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 34:24
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 14:35
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 20:01
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 5:35
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 28:45
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 12:24
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 21:31
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 33:10
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 36:56
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 20:14
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 11:31
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 30:53
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 20:06
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 15:13

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