David Copperfield (Classic Fiction)
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9626341513 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 415 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.. 'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (
"The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists" -- Leo Tolstoy "Dickens did what very few writers have managed to not only describe a city, but to define it For all his sentimentality, Dickens was an extraordinary person, inseparable inthe imagination from London, just as London is inseparable from Dickens" * Time Out * "David Copperfield is Dickens's Hamlet I can't remember being so moved by one of his novels What puts David Copperfield right up there with Bleak House and Great Expectations, however, is its sweet nature, and its surprising modernity Completing David Copperfield has left me feeling bereft" -- Nick Hornby "I came to Dickens relatively late in life, but in a way, I think that's the best time. When you're a child, all you see is the plum-pudding characterization and twisting-and-turning storylines, and though that is part of the juicy pleasure of Dickens, you need to be an adult to get the heartbreaking measure of his genius. It's the fullest, most breat
A Chapter a Day Roger Brunyate My wife and I have been reading this together, a chapter a day over the past ten weeks. It has been a revelation for me, largely because I had somehow picked up a prejudice against Dickens, and this is the first novel of his that I have attempted as a mature reader. What an achievement: suspenseful, dramatic, crammed with marvelous characters, and often very funn. BLEAK HOUSE: comparing Penguin & Oxford editions If you've decided to read Dicken's BLEAK HOUSE, one of the longest of the great English-language classics, your next decision is probably which edition to read. The Signet paperback edition is perfectly readable, as are most other simple editions. They have the text, and often the original illustrations, and sometimes a helpful introductory essay by some scholar.. 19th-century binge-watching It's important, when reading this, to remember that "David Copperfield" was originally published in 20 monthly installments, rather than as a single work of fiction. Each installment was only 3 to 19th-century binge-watching Jason A. Miller It's important, when reading this, to remember that "David Copperfield" was originally published in 20 monthly installments, rather than as a single work of fiction. Each installment was only 3 to 4 chapters long, and the final two installments were released together as a double-volume. This was kind of like 19th-century Netflix; you got to watch the two-part ser. chapters long, and the final two installments were released together as a double-volume. This was kind of like 19th-century Netflix; you got to watch the two-part ser