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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

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Read the complete English text of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Choose an online section or download a free PDF in your preferred paper size.

This reading edition contains 185,225 words in 59 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: Charles Dickens. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

Opening excerpt

My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

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Contents

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  1. Chapter I.9 min
  2. Chapter II.16 min
  3. Chapter III.9 min
  4. Chapter IV.16 min
  5. Chapter V.20 min
  6. Chapter VI.4 min
  7. Chapter VII.19 min
  8. Chapter VIII.22 min
  9. Chapter IX.12 min
  10. Chapter X.12 min
  11. Chapter XI.25 min
  12. Chapter XII.11 min
  13. Chapter XIII.13 min
  14. Chapter XIV.4 min
  15. Chapter XV.20 min
  16. Chapter XVI.9 min
  17. Chapter XVII.16 min
  18. Chapter XVIII.23 min
  19. Chapter XIX.27 min
  20. Chapter XX.15 min
  21. Chapter XXI.9 min
  22. Chapter XXII.23 min
  23. Chapter XXIII.15 min
  24. Chapter XXIV.11 min
  25. Chapter XXV.14 min
  26. Chapter XXVI.13 min
  27. Chapter XXVII.14 min
  28. Chapter XXVIII.12 min
  29. Chapter XXIX.23 min
  30. Chapter XXX.16 min
  31. Chapter XXXI.10 min
  32. Chapter XXXII.11 min
  33. Chapter XXXIII.13 min
  34. Chapter XXXIV.11 min
  35. Chapter XXXV.15 min
  36. Chapter XXXVI.12 min
  37. Chapter XXXVII.13 min
  38. Chapter XXXVIII.23 min
  39. Chapter XXXIX.23 min
  40. Chapter XL.24 min
  41. Chapter XLI.10 min
  42. Chapter XLII.14 min
  43. Chapter XLIII.9 min
  44. Chapter XLIV.14 min
  45. Chapter XLV.14 min
  46. Chapter XLVI.14 min
  47. Chapter XLVII.12 min
  48. Chapter XLVIII.13 min
  49. Chapter XLIX.17 min
  50. Chapter L.7 min
  51. Chapter LI.14 min
  52. Chapter LII.10 min
  53. Chapter LIII.24 min
  54. Chapter LIV.26 min
  55. Chapter LV.13 min
  56. Chapter LVI.10 min
  57. Chapter LVII.23 min
  58. Chapter LVIII.14 min
  59. Chapter LIX.7 min

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