Free classics · 1861
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
A poor village boy gets a fortune from a secret benefactor and becomes someone he doesn't like.
- to read
- 13 h
- to read
- at 20 min a day
- 39 days
- at 20 min a day
- public domain
- Free
- public domain
What it’s about
Pip helps an escaped convict on the marshes, is taken to play at the strange house of Miss Havisham, and later comes into money from someone he doesn't know.
Dickens fills it with unforgettable people, and the mystery of the money pays off.
- Ambition
- Class
- Loyalty
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence.”
Why people stop, and how to finish
The middle section in London is slower, and Dickens's sentences are long.
What helps: Listen to Dickens if reading feels heavy. He wrote for reading aloud.
At 20 minutes a day you’ll reach the last page in about 39 days.
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