Great Expectations
Grandes esperanzas
A convict in a graveyard, a fortune from nowhere, and a boy ashamed of the man who loves him.
Charles Dickens's 1861 novel, told for Level 3. Pip is a blacksmith's boy until money arrives from an unnamed benefactor and makes him a gentleman in London. He assumes he knows who sent it. Everything he becomes is built on that assumption.
16 chapters · 21,623 words
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- 1El hombre entre las tumbasFree · 1211 words
- 2La lima y el pastelFree · 1377 words
- 3La zanjaSubscribers · 1458 words
- 4Las nueve menos veinteSubscribers · 1421 words
- 5El hierro rotoSubscribers · 1323 words
- 6Grandes esperanzasSubscribers · 1057 words
- 7El joven pálidoSubscribers · 1276 words
- 8El sombrero de JoeSubscribers · 1196 words
- 9ÁmalaSubscribers · 1210 words
- 10La niebla sube otra vezSubscribers · 1179 words
- 11Pasos en la escaleraSubscribers · 2390 words
- 12ProvisSubscribers · 1144 words
- 13¿Qué he hecho?Subscribers · 1334 words
- 14La cena del señor JaggersSubscribers · 1275 words
- 15La mareaSubscribers · 1383 words
- 16La niebla de la tardeSubscribers · 1389 words
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More at Explorer · B1
Same level, so you can keep going without stepping up
A storm on the lake, a girl pulled from the water, and a guardian who is robbing her.
Two boys born in London the same day — one a prince, one a pauper. For a joke they trade clothes, and neither can get his life back.
Two sisters say their house is haunted. Nancy's father disappears proving it isn't.
The Day the World Broke
INHABITANT · B2
November 8, 1519. Two columns walk toward each other on the same causeway.
A horse tells his own life — every owner, every kindness, every cruelty.