David Copperfield
Charles Dickens & Jeremy Tambling & Coralie Bickford-Smith
Language: English
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: May 17, 2016
Description:
Dickens' great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition
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's own father that evokes a mixture of love, nostalgia, and guilt.
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