The Personal History of David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles 1812-1870

The Personal History of David Copperfield David Copperfield Dickens, Charles; with illustrations by John Austen - Collector's Edition - Norwalk, Connecticut Easton Press 1979 - 821 pages illustrations 24.13 cm - Easton Press's The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written .

Bound in genuine leather with 22kt gold accents on hubbed spine, sewn pages, heavy duty binding boards. Front cover has full-color frontispiece portrait of author. Page ends are gilded, printed on acid-neutral paper, handsome moire end pages, and a satin-ribbon page marker. Easton Press edition is published by advance reservation only exclusively for subscribers to the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written.

The story of David whose father died before he was born leaving him to be raised by his mother and their housekeeper. His mother remarries a cruel man, Edward Murdstone. When David falls behind in his classes he is sent to boarding school. His mother and baby brother die while he is away at school and David is then sent to work for a wine merchant by his stepfather. David then becomes homeless after misfortune with his landlord, and he moves in with his great-aunt Betsey who raises him to adulthood, and he eventually becomes a writer.

Adults

Heavy duty binding boards

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Boys--Fiction
Young men--Fiction
Orphans--Fiction
Child labor--Fiction


England--Fiction


Autobiographical fiction
Bildungsromans
Classic Fiction

PR4558 .A1 1979

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