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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Peter Batchelor
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Listen to the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth. After he deserts his true friends, he becomes humbled by his own arrogance. Great Expectations is Dickens at his finest.

Public Domain (P)2012 Trout Lake Media Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Loved it, absolutely stunned by how much. My fist novel by Charles Dickens and love everything about the whole book.

Great narration and fantastic over 3 parts. Pips' journey is wonderful and interesting. I love Jo and the aged, the language and have already selected a second book by this author.

I purchased this book a year ago and am so glad I did, and have had a truly remarkable experience exceeding all my expectations and initially they were not great!

I am certainly recommending this great book, and the adventure. A happy bunny having this book.

Great Expectations

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Quite simply dear audio 'readers' this is one simply engrossing version of the much loved tale from Dickens himself. There is very little to say other than out of all I have listened to, this one was by far the best. I do hop you will give this version a chance. You will be extremely pleased you did! Yours truly - Indie.

Amazing and engrossing.

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Having recently visited Dickens’ house/museum in Bloomsbury, I was inspired to listen to some of his work. I’d forgotten just how wonderful Dickens as the spoken word can be. Dickens’ lecturn is in the museum and Peter Batchelor as narrator has the sonorous gravitas that the great man must have had. I’m inspired to listen to all the rest of peter’s narrations. I can not recommend too highly.....

Wonderful!

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For me the narration lacked empathy, vitality and pace but I guess it was in keeping with the Dickens era.

narration matched era

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Fantastic story. 5 stars no question.
Audio issues were disappointing though. Firstly, there were several times when parts of the narration were repeated - once for at least 15 minutes. Secondly, the audio quality and volume were inconsistent. Finally, I was surprised to hear the narrator mispronounce several words as well as get the tone of some utterances wrong, showing a lack of familiarity with the material.

Fantastic story let down by audio issues

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