Great Expectations (Unabridged)
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3.3 • 23 Ratings
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens, first serialised in
All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old, to the winter of 1840.
Great Expectations is written in a semi-autobiographical style, and is the story of the orphan Pip, tracing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood. The story can also be considered a semi-autobiographical portrait of Dickens, like much of his work, drawing on his experiences of life and people.
Customer Reviews
very helpful
If I read the book, I'll be most likely to either forget it or to lose focus, and it takes forever! I'm only doing this for a class project, but this will take a lot less time.
Frustrating
The reader of this unabridged version does a decent job, but is extremely ill-served by the production of the recording which, for whatever reason, has had all natural pauses between sentences, as well as pauses for effect or just for taking breath, deleted. This means that the reading proceeds at an unnaturally fast pace with few or no breaks in conversation. The chapters are not announced, but a short piece of flute music is played at the end of each chapter, which quickly becomes annoying. Why not announce the chapters as is normal? Not worth even the paltry charge of $2.95.
Surprising
When i started reading this book i was reading because i had too. I am in an honors english class so we look past just the story and go into the symbols suchas the mist jaggers washing his hands ruined gardens and many others. I found myself starting to like the bok at the end of part two. It was dificult for me to read three chapters a night because of the way it was written, so i bought this audiobook. It really helped for things to go by faster.