Read-along
Great Expectations
Fifty-nine chapters from a churchyard on the marshes, beginning on Dickens's birthday.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 7 February
- Length
- Length 59 days
Great Expectations first came out a chapter or two a week in Dickens's own magazine, All the Year Round, from December 1860, and readers waited each week to find out what became of Pip. It is the story of a blacksmith's boy who is suddenly made a gentleman by an unknown benefactor, and of what that does to him, and it is the most tightly made of all Dickens's novels. Read it at something like the pace it was written for: a chapter a day, fifty-nine days, from the convict in the churchyard to the ruins of Satis House.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
Day by day
- Day 1. Chapter ICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 2. Chapter IICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 3. Chapter IIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 4. Chapter IVCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 5. Chapter VCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 6. Chapter VICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 7. Chapter VIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 8. Chapter VIIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 9. Chapter IXCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 10. Chapter XCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 11. Chapter XICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 12. Chapter XIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 13. Chapter XIIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 14. Chapter XIVCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 15. Chapter XVCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 16. Chapter XVICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 17. Chapter XVIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 18. Chapter XVIIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 19. Chapter XIXCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 20. Chapter XXCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 21. Chapter XXICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 22. Chapter XXIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 23. Chapter XXIIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 24. Chapter XXIVCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 25. Chapter XXVCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 26. Chapter XXVICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 27. Chapter XXVIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 28. Chapter XXVIIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 29. Chapter XXIXCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 30. Chapter XXXCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 31. Chapter XXXICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 32. Chapter XXXIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 33. Chapter XXXIIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 34. Chapter XXXIVCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 35. Chapter XXXVCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 36. Chapter XXXVICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 37. Chapter XXXVIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 38. Chapter XXXVIIICharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 39. Chapter XXXIXCharles Dickens, 20 min
- Day 40. Chapter XLCharles Dickens, 20 min