DAVID COPPERFIELD : The Personal History (Penguin English Library) by Dickens, Charles; (Trevor Blount, Introduction) - 1966

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books Ltd, 1966. Reprint of 1969 . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz') [Illustrator). Text/NEW w/faint margin discoloration. Softcover/NF w/light edge & surface wear & creasings to spine. Classic "autobiographical novel", because much drawn from personal experience, of& by, Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870). Protagonist David Copperfield, whose father died before his birth, was born on a Friday (day of "loving and giving") in the early 19th century. The pet of his mother Clara & nursemaid Peggotty, his life changes after his mother's remarriage & subsequent mental & physical abuse from the stepfather. He know trails of a boarding school, work in the family's bottling factory, until taken in by his Aunt Betsey Trotwood who arranged further schooling for him. The new lease on life include an most unpleasant encounter with Uriah Heep, and loss of his childlike wife Dora, before knowing a successful literary career. 957 pgs w/prefaces to both the 1850 and 1869 printings; 64 chapter in 20 parts, followed by Notes..