TY - BOOK AU - Dickens, Charles AU - DIckens, Charles ED - Easton Press ED - Easton Press TI - David Copperfield: The Personal History of PY - 1979/// CY - United States of America PB - Easton Press KW - Dickens, Charles KW - English KW - David Copperfield N1 - Fully and tightly bound genuine leather, 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid hubbed spine, full-color portrait and illustrations. Comes with sewn pages, moire end pages, and satin-ribbon page marker. Printed in the United States of America. Rigorous inspection at every stage ensures adherence to exacting standards. N2 - The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf 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 brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure; This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850, and includes updated suggestions for further reading, original illustrations by 'Phiz', a revised chronology and expanded notes ER -