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Based in part on the author's own life, David Copperfield is the epic story of a young man's journey of self-discovery - from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the memorable cast of characters he encounters along the way are... Read Full Overview

"Soy un buen padre de todos los hijos de mi imaginaci n, pero en el fondo de mi coraz n, tengo que reconocer que tengo un hijo favorito y se llama David Copperfield", dijo Charles Dickens unos meses antes de morir.
Una historia de superaci n, de valent a, de no darse por vencido... Read Full Overview

Dickens' number plans for David Copperfield , which reveal his practice both as a serial writer and as a craftsman, are also included. "Backgrounds" focuses on Dickens' personal involvement with and response to the novel's publication. Included are passages from his letters relating... Read Full Overview

Embark on a captivating journey through the life of David Copperfield with Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece. Follow his triumphs and tribulations, encountering a vivid cast of characters and exploring themes of love, friendship, and resilience. A must-read for lovers... Read Full Overview

Embark on a captivating journey through the life of David Copperfield with Charles Dickens' timeless masterpiece. Follow his triumphs and tribulations, encountering a vivid cast of characters and exploring themes of love, friendship, and resilience. A must-read for lovers... Read Full Overview

Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising... Read Full Overview

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventure, David meets an array of eccentric characters... Read Full Overview

One of Dickens's best-loved and most personal novels, David Copperfield is the embodiment of Dickens's own boyhood experience recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse. This edition, which has the accurate Clarendon text, includes Dickens's trial titles and working... Read Full Overview

Charles Dickens's most famous novel was also his own favorite, and the one that drew most on his own life story. David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic. In a book that is part fairy tale... Read Full Overview

David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published as a book in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of his novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, "like... Read Full Overview

The editor has made necessary typographical corrections and carefully introduced and annotated the text for the student reader.

Dickens' number plans for David Copperfield, which reveal his practice both as a serial writer and as a craftsman, are also included.

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David Copperfield follows the psychological and moral growth of the narrator, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity. David Copperfield is characterised in the book as trusting, goal-oriented, but as yet immature. The novel begins, like other novels... Read Full Overview