Dickens, Charles  1812-1870 <br/><br/>
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  23.5 cm 
 - Easton Press's The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written .
<br/><br/> Book is bound in genuine leather with hubbed spine, sewn pages, heavy duty binding boards, and 22kt gold accents. 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.   Stamped leaf design on leather binding created by graphic artist, Richard Traunig of Wethersfield, Connecticut.  
<br/><br/> Charles Dickens' 1850 classic epic, David Copperfield, unfolds the story of David, an optimistic and hard-working lad who's orphaned in his youth. Raised initially by his brutal stepfather, who halts David's schooling and sends him to work in a factory, David eventually finds a home with his eccentric, but kind aunt, Betsey. Later in life, David trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. 
<br/><br/> Enhanced with heavy duty binding boards. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788424155117 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Boys--Fiction<br/>Young men--Fiction<br/>Orphans--Fiction<br/>Stepfathers--Fiction<br/>Child labor--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>England--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Autobiographical fiction<br/>Bildungsromans
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR4558 .A1 1979 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.8