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David Copperfield

By Charles Dickens, H.K. K. Browne (Illustrator), Jeremy Tambling (Contributor)

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Penguin Classics e-books give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens's novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens's life and notes that fill in the backgrContinue

Penguin Classics e-books give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens's novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens's life and notes that fill in the background to the book.



David Copperfield is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are David's tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy, school-friend Steerforth; 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.

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  • David Copperfield

    La presentazione e le recensioni di David Copperfield, opera di Charles Dickens edita da Einaudi. David, orfano di padre, vive una infanzia felice con la madre, ma questa poi si risposa con il signor Murdstone, un uomo crudele che la porta alla tomba ... (read full critics)

    Qlibri published on Thu, 9 Dec 2010

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    This semi-autobiographical work displays Dickens at his best - wry, delicately ironic with a cast of characters both absurd and profound. It's a sentimental favorite of mine.

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    guaddess said on May 31, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Fantastic book. Love Dickens. The character of David Copperfield and his true friends are ones to admire for their portrayal of goodness.

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    Rice Cooker said on Jan 3, 2011 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback

  • Actually I did not re-read it, but I listened to the audiobook.
    The personal History of David Copperfield was Dickens’ favourite amongst his novels and much of it is based on Dickens’ own life. He wrote in his forward to the novel “No one can ever believe this Narrative in the reading more than I h ... (continue)

    Actually I did not re-read it, but I listened to the audiobook.
    The personal History of David Copperfield was Dickens’ favourite amongst his novels and much of it is based on Dickens’ own life. He wrote in his forward to the novel “No one can ever believe this Narrative in the reading more than I have believed in the writing.
    Considered one of the finest novels of the time and loved by other great writers like Henry James, V. Woolf, Kafka, Dostojevsy, Tolstoy. It is a must to read.
    I guess than in real life “loving to distraction” made Dickens’ life pretty miserable compared to Copperfield’s one. :0/

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    Barbara ABP said on Aug 15, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Déjà vu

    "We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said nex ... (continue)

    "We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances - of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remember it!"

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    Corine... said on Sep 29, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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