The Personal History of David Copperfield /
Dickens, Charles 1812-1870
The Personal History of David Copperfield / David Copperfield Charles Dickens ; illustrated by John Austen - Collector's Edition - Norwalk, Connecticut : Easton Press, 1979 - 821 pages : illustrations ; 6 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. - The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written .
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favorite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.
9788424155117
Boys--Fiction
England--Fiction
Orphans--Fiction
Young men--Fiction
Novelists--Fiction
Stepfathers--Fiction
Child labor--Fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
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The Personal History of David Copperfield / David Copperfield Charles Dickens ; illustrated by John Austen - Collector's Edition - Norwalk, Connecticut : Easton Press, 1979 - 821 pages : illustrations ; 6 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. - The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written .
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favorite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.
9788424155117
Boys--Fiction
England--Fiction
Orphans--Fiction
Young men--Fiction
Novelists--Fiction
Stepfathers--Fiction
Child labor--Fiction
Autobiographical fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
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