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
9788424155117
2016591394
Boys--Fiction
Young men--Fiction
Orphans--Fiction
Child labor--Fiction
England--Fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Bildungsromans
Classic Fiction
PR4558 .A1 1979
823.8
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
9788424155117
2016591394
Boys--Fiction
Young men--Fiction
Orphans--Fiction
Child labor--Fiction
England--Fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Bildungsromans
Classic Fiction
PR4558 .A1 1979
823.8