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David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)

David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) Trade paperback - 2004

by Dickens, Charles; Tambling, Jeremy

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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.

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UK: Penguin Books, 2004. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x1x7. New. Revised edition. An exceptional copy. 2004 Trade Paperback. xliv, 974 pp. 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. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. 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 with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850, and includes updated suggestions for further reading, original illustrations by 'Phiz', a revised chronology and expanded notes. In his new introduction, Jeremy Tambling discusses the novel's autobiographical elements, and its central themes of memory and identity.
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  • Title David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Dickens, Charles; Tambling, Jeremy
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Revised Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 1024
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, UK
  • Date 2004
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2341395
  • ISBN 9780140439441 / 0140439447
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.9 in (19.81 x 12.95 x 4.83 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 290
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Catalog Heading: Classics
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Curriculum Strand: Language Arts/Literature
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress subjects England, Boys
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004275519
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

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. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. 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 “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 1850
  • Includes updated suggestions for further reading, a revised chronology, and expanded notes
  • introduction discusses the novel's autobiographical elements and its central themes of memory and identity

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.


Jeremy Tambling is professor of comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong.


Jeremy Tambling is professor of comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong.

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 01/01/2005, Page 89

About the author

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.

Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

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