The Personal History of David Copperfield (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Dickens, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140434941 ISBN 13: 9780140434941

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1996

Synopsis

'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.

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Review:

"The most perfect of all the Dickens novels."
--Virginia Woolf

"The most perfect of all the Dickens novels."
--Virginia Woolf

Book Description:

With an exclusive introduction by Peter Ackroyd, these out of print editions are brought back to life with a fresh and timeless new look.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140434941
• ISBN 13: 9780140434941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 912
• Editor: Tambling Jeremy
• Illustrator: Browne H.K.