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Apr 01, 2012 listen to great expectations audiobook by charles dickens. This classic tale tells of an orphan, pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmiths apprentice and then learns that he has great expectations of a future inheritance. While i found the narration excellent, the beginning of the book, with pips terrorizing by the convict and then the abuse by his sister, was just too bleak and intense, and i gave it up. Jul 20, 2015 great expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of pip from his childhood, through often painful experiences, to adulthood.
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