Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. In David Copperfield-the novel he described as his 'favorite child'-Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.This edition uses the text of the first book edition of 1850Includes updated suggestions for further reading, a revised chronology, and expanded notesintroduction discusses the novel' s autobiographical elements and its central themes of memory and identity The classic saga of an orphaned boy making his way from the sweatshops of 19th-century London to finding family, love, and the good life by giving kindness and consideration to the people he meets along the way. Murdstone his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep frivolous, enchanting Dora and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature' s great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his favourite child - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create.
Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr.
David Copperfield is the story of a young man' s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled.
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