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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · 1861 · Romance, Drama & Literary
On the bleak Kent marshes a convict terrifies a small orphan named Pip into stealing food and a file — a frightened act of pity that will one day remake his life. Summoned to the decayed mansion of the jilted Miss Havisham, Pip falls hopelessly in love with her cold, beautiful ward Estella and grows ashamed of the forge and the gentle blacksmith Joe who raised him. Then a secret benefactor gives him 'great expectations,' and Pip goes to London to become a gentleman — until the truth of his fortune arrives on a storm-night and overturns everything he believed. Dickens's late masterpiece is a haunting tale of ambition, snobbery, guilt, and hard-won humility. Complete and richly illustrated.
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This edition
- Title
- Great Expectations
- Author
- Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
- First published
- 1861
- Illustrated plates
- 45 original artworks · 20 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 59 · about 184,639 words
- Reading time
- 12 h 19 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #1400
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