Dobře se poslouchala, knihy Charlese Dickense obecně mají poutavý děj plný zvratů a překvapení. (Summary by Mil Nicholson)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit se snadnou a dobře srozumitelnou angličtinou, vhodná pro každého, kdo už si s tímto jazykem 'něco začal'. Then unexpected problems from his past arise, and begin to transform his attitude. Pip begins overspending his generous allowance, and worse, spurns his old friends. However, life is complicated as a gentleman in society, and he finds himself very unhappy, as Estella remains indifferent to him, involved with someone else.

In London, he acquires a tutor, grand new clothes and the lifestyle he always wanted. The benefactor is kept secret, but Pip is sure it must be Miss Havisham. Jaggers, arrives to inform him that he has come into a handsome property, and will be removed from his present home to be brought up as a gentleman. A few years later, he becomes apprenticed to Joe, a blacksmith, but dreams of becoming rich and clever and marrying Estella. Although Pip is ashamed of himself as a poor uneducated boy, he is fascinated by Estella. Miss Havisham, an eccentric, rich recluse, sends for Pip to come to her house to play with Estella, a haughty and rude girl about his age. But the convict is caught and returned to prison. During Pip's 7th year, while playing in the marshes, he is accosted by an escaped criminal whom he decides to help by stealing food from his own home. His sister, a tough unloving woman, rules Pip and her gentle husband Joe with an iron hand. Pip grows up with his older sister after losing his parents at a very early age. In one of Charles Dickens’ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as “Pip”, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years. LibriVox recording of Great Expectations (Version 3) by Charles Dickens.

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