Great Expectations

Name: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

English · 1861 · Fiction

An orphan named Pip receives a mysterious fortune and leaves the Kentish marshes for London, in Dickens's novel of ambition, class, and conscience.

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Chapter IMy father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip…
Chapter IIMy sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I…
Chapter IIIIt was a rimy morning, and very damp. I had seen the damp lying on…
Chapter IVI fully expected to find a constable in the kitchen, waiting to take…
Chapter VThe apparition of a file of soldiers ringing down the but-ends of…
Chapter VIMy state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so…
Chapter VIIAt the time when I stood in the churchyard reading the family…
Chapter VIIIMr. Pumblechook’s premises in the High Street of the market town…
Chapter IXWhen I reached home, my sister was very curious to know all about…
Chapter XThe felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I…
Chapter XIAt the appointed time I returned to Miss Havisham’s, and my…
Chapter XIIMy mind grew very uneasy on the subject of the pale young gentleman.…
Chapter XIIIIt was a trial to my feelings, on the next day but one, to see Joe…
Chapter XIVIt is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be…
Chapter XVAs I was getting too big for Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt’s room, my…
Chapter XVIWith my head full of George Barnwell, I was at first disposed to…
Chapter XVIII now fell into a regular routine of apprenticeship life, which was…
Chapter XVIIIIt was in the fourth year of my apprenticeship to Joe, and it was a…
Chapter XIXMorning made a considerable difference in my general prospect of…
Chapter XXThe journey from our town to the metropolis was a journey of about…
Chapter XXICasting my eyes on Mr. Wemmick as we went along, to see what he was…
Chapter XXIIThe pale young gentleman and I stood contemplating one another in…
Chapter XXIIIMr. Pocket said he was glad to see me, and he hoped I was not sorry…
Chapter XXIVAfter two or three days, when I had established myself in my room and…
Chapter XXVBentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up a…
Chapter XXVIIt fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early…
Chapter XXVII“My Dear Mr. Pip:—
Chapter XXVIIIIt was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the…
Chapter XXIXBetimes in the morning I was up and out. It was too early yet to go…
Chapter XXXAfter well considering the matter while I was dressing at the Blue…
Chapter XXXIOn our arrival in Denmark, we found the king and queen of that…
Chapter XXXIIOne day when I was busy with my books and Mr. Pocket, I received a…
Chapter XXXIIIIn her furred travelling-dress, Estella seemed more delicately…
Chapter XXXIVAs I had grown accustomed to my expectations, I had insensibly begun…
Chapter XXXVIt was the first time that a grave had opened in my road of life, and…
Chapter XXXVIHerbert and I went on from bad to worse, in the way of increasing our…
Chapter XXXVIIDeeming Sunday the best day for taking Mr. Wemmick’s Walworth…
Chapter XXXVIIIIf that staid old house near the Green at Richmond should ever come…
Chapter XXXIXI was three-and-twenty years of age. Not another word had I heard to…
Chapter XLIt was fortunate for me that I had to take precautions to ensure (so…
Chapter XLIIn vain should I attempt to describe the astonishment and disquiet of…
Chapter XLII“Dear boy and Pip’s comrade. I am not a going fur to tell you my life…
Chapter XLIIIWhy should I pause to ask how much of my shrinking from Provis might…
Chapter XLIVIn the room where the dressing-table stood, and where the wax-candles…
Chapter XLVTurning from the Temple gate as soon as I had read the warning, I…
Chapter XLVIEight o’clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented…
Chapter XLVIISome weeks passed without bringing any change. We waited for Wemmick…
Chapter XLVIIIThe second of the two meetings referred to in the last chapter…
Chapter XLIXPutting Miss Havisham’s note in my pocket, that it might serve as my…
Chapter LMy hands had been dressed twice or thrice in the night, and again in…
Chapter LIWhat purpose I had in view when I was hot on tracing out and proving…
Chapter LIIFrom Little Britain I went, with my check in my pocket, to Miss…
Chapter LIIIIt was a dark night, though the full moon rose as I left the enclosed…
Chapter LIVIt was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind…
Chapter LVHe was taken to the Police Court next day, and would have been…
Chapter LVIHe lay in prison very ill, during the whole interval between his…
Chapter LVIINow that I was left wholly to myself, I gave notice of my intention…
Chapter LVIIIThe tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down…
Chapter LIXFor eleven years, I had not seen Joe nor Biddy with my bodily…

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