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Embark on a journey through the intricate world of personal growth and societal challenges that arise when ambition and reality collide. This podcast explores the themes of self-discovery, social mobility, and the complexities of human relationships, inviting listeners to ponder the nature of expectations and their impact on life’s path. Each week, tune in to a different complete audiobook that brings to life these enduring ideas through diverse narratives and voices. With a rotating selection of stories spanning various eras and styles, listeners gain a fresh perspective and a deeper ...

Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens’ greatest critical and popular successes. The first-person narrative relates the coming-of-age of Pip (Philip Pirrip). Reared in the marshes of Kent by his disagreeable sister and her sweet-natured husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery, the young Pip one day helps a convict to escape. Later he is sent to live with Miss Havisham, a woman driven half-mad years earlier by her lover's departure on their wedding day. Her other ward is the orphaned Estella, whom she is teaching to torment men with her beauty.

The story of the orphan Pip, writing his life from his early days of childhood until adulthood and trying to be a gentleman along the way is without doubt one of Dicken's greatest works.

Full-cast performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the novel. Dickens' tale of Pip, a young man "removed from his present sphere of life" and cast into a Victorian nightmare, is a powerful audio drama to be enjoyed and appreciated as an important piece of social criticism.