Cover of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

3.8 · 165 ratings on Open Library

An orphan boy living in Victorian England begins his life in extreme poverty and goes on to experience good fortune, love, rejection, wealth, and social challenges as he grows into adulthood.

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Length
185,000 words
Reading time
About 11 hours
Format
EPUB, DRM-free

About the book

Charles Dickens was a British author, journalist, and editor whose work brought attention to the struggles of Victorian England’s lower classes. His writings provided a candid portrait of the era’s poor and served as inspiration for social change.

Great Expectations, Dickens’ thirteenth novel, was first published in serial form between 1860 and 1861 and is widely praised as the author’s greatest literary accomplishment.

This is the Standard Ebooks edition, carefully proofread and typeset, with a table of contents and linked footnotes.

What readers think

3.8 out of 5

165 ratings of Great Expectations from Open Library readers, as of 10th Nov.

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