David Copperfield
This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens' own father which evokes a mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt. This is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic.
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Boys > Fiction. Orphans > Fiction. Young men > Fiction. Stepfathers > Fiction. Child labor > Fiction. Great Britain > Social life and customs > Fiction. |
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Autobiographical fiction. Bildungsromans. |
- ISBN: 9780199536290
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Physical Description
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xxxi, 901 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published ... 1983; Reissued with a new introduction and bibliography 1997; Reissued as an Oxford world's classics paperback 1999, reissued 2008"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |