David Copperfield

Author/creator Dickens, Charles Author
Other author Burgis, Nina Editor
Other author Sanders, Andrew Introduction by
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Description932 p. ill 19.600 x 012.900 cm.
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SeriesOxford World's Classics Ser.
Summary Annotation `I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and in the first-person narrative, a new departure for him, realized marvellously the workings of memory. The embodiment of his boyhood experience in the novelinvolved a `complicated interweaving of truth and fiction', at its most subtle in the portrait of his father as Mr Micawber, one of Dickens's greatest comic creations. Enjoying a humour that never becomes caricature, the reader shares David's affection for the eccentric Betsey Trotwood and herprotege Mr Dick, and smiles with the narrator at the trials he endures in his love for the delightfully silly Dora. Settings, (East Anglia, the London of the 1820s), people, and events are unified by their relationship to the story of Steerforth's treachery, which reaches its powerful climax in thestorm scene. This edition, which has the accurate Clarendon text, includes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, and eight of the original illustrations by `Phiz'.
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ISBN9780192835789
ISBN0192835785 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print
Standard identifier# 9780192835789
Stock number00020142

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