David Copperfield

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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

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  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

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1983)

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  Annalisa said on Nov 15, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  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

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  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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• ISBN-10: 9963626300
• ISBN-13: 9789963626304
• Publisher: UNKNOWN
• Pub date: Dec 31, 1999
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