David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles

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‘David Copperfield’ draws openly on Dickens’ own experiences in childhood and in his vocation as a successful novelist, reflecting his relationship with his father. This edition includes appendices with extracts from John Forster’s ‘Life of Dickens’ as well as the number-plans for ‘David Copperfield’.

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Publish Date: 24/06/2004
ISBN: 9780140439441 Category: Tag:

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Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw

‘The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists’ Leo Tolstoy

In David Copperfield – the novel he described as his ‘favourite child’ – Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant but 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.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeremy Tambling

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Weight 689 g
Dimensions 198 × 128 × 45 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

974

Language

English

Edition

Revised edition

Dewey

823.8 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K