David Copperfield: Introduction by Michael Slater (Everyman's Library Classics Series) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679405712 ISBN 13: 9780679405719

Publisher: Everyman's Library USA, 1991

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:

"David Copperfield [is] the most poetic of all Dickens' novels . . . Not only was he revealing to his readers in the earlier chapters his 'hard experiences in boyhood' and his scorching first experience of passionate love, he was also sharing with them his own understanding of the roots of the art that had taken them by storm and to which they were in thrall even as they read about it." -From the Introduction by Michael Slater

Book Description:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library USA
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679405712
• ISBN 13: 9780679405719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1016