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David Copperfield

David Copperfield Mass market paperbound - 1985

by Charles Dickens

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Written in the form of an autobiography, it tells the story of David Copperfield, growing to maturity in the affairs of the world and the affairs of the heart - his success as an artist arising out of his sufferings and out of the lessons he derives from life. In addition, in David Copperfield Dickens creates some of his most memorable characters - Micawber, Uriah Heep, Steerforth - creatures whom, in Chesterton's words, "we would not forget if we could, creatures whom we could not forget if we would, creatures who are more actual than the man who made them".
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  • Title David Copperfield
  • Author Charles Dickens
  • Illustrator Hablot K. Browne
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition New Impression
  • Condition Used
  • Pages 958
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, England
  • Date 1985
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1
  • ISBN 9780140430080 / 0140430083
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.85 x 5.08 x 1.56 in (19.94 x 12.90 x 3.96 cm)
  • Ages 14 to 22 years
  • Grade levels 9 - 17
  • Reading level 290
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

"The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia WoolfWhen David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventures, David meets an array of eccentric characters and learns hard lessons about the world before he finally discovers true happiness.

From the publisher

Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Landport, Portsea, England. He died in Kent on June 9, 1870. The second of eight children of a family continually plagued by debt, the young Dickens came to know not only hunger and privation,but also the horror of the infamous debtors’ prison and the evils of child labor. A turn of fortune in the shape of a legacy brought release from the nightmare of prison and “slave” factories and afforded Dickens the opportunity of two years’ formal schooling at Wellington House Academy. He worked as an attorney’s clerk and newspaper reporter until his Sketches by Boz (1836) and The Pickwick Papers (1837) brought him the amazing and instant success that was to be his for the remainder of his life. In later years, the pressure of serial writing, editorial duties, lectures, and social commitments led to his separation from Catherine Hogarth after twenty-three years of marriage. It also hastened his death at the age of fifty-eight, when he was characteristically engaged in a multitude of work.

First Edition Identification

First published in book format in 1850 by Bradbury & Evans.

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