Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861 · Fiction

Full text · 61 chaptersNarrated in your voice

Public domain · added by Library

What it's about

A blacksmith's boy comes into money from a source he could not guess and becomes a worse person for it. Dickens's tightest novel and his most honest one: the wealth is real, the gentleman it makes is not, and the bill arrives.

Reading plan

Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.

Read together

Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.

Who it's for

- Anyone who has come into something they did not earn - Readers who want Dickens without the sprawl - Anyone who knows Miss Havisham only as an image