David Copperfield: Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141394641 ISBN 13: 9780141394640

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2014

Synopsis

Dickens's great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful clothbound Penguin 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 which evokes a mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt.
Dickens's great Bildungsroman (based, in part, on his own boyhood) is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic.

Charles Dickens (1812-70) had his first, astounding success with his first novel The Pickwick Papers and never looked back. In an extraordinarily full life he wrote, campaigned and spoke on a huge range of issues, and was involved in many of the key aspects of Victorian life, by turns cajoling, moving and irritating. He completed fourteen full-length novels and volume after volume of journalism. Of all his many works, he called David Copperfield his 'favourite child'.
Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester.

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Review:

Introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders facilitated a proper understanding of period details and plot structure. I will continue to use this edition in future classes on Dickens's novels. (Helge Nowak, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtitaet)

Book Description:

'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141394641
• ISBN 13: 9780141394640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1024