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David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Dickens
Creator: Jeremy Tambling
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 58565
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1024
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.7
ISBN: 0140439447
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780140439441
ASIN: 0140439447
Publication Date: December 28, 2004
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David Copperfield is the story of a young mans 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 literatures great comic creations. In David Copperfieldthe novel he described as his favorite childDickens 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.
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classic classic October 10, 2008
The historic Penguin with explanatory notes and crisp delineation of the illustrations. The notes are well organized and straightforward, and you will need them.A writer it is said, only gets to spin his own tale once, my feeling is that Dickens does that here with the unforgettably grittiest descriptive narrative scenes in all of Victorian literature.
Beautiful October 2, 2008
If you are used to reading contemporary fiction (as I am), this will be slower and harder to get into that you may be used to. I gave it the chance and it has become one of my favorite reads ever. Great characters, a compelling story and beautifully told. Easy to see why this is a literary classic.
Comedy, tragedy, and mystery August 26, 2008
Classic of the caliber of Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics). Dickens does a great job of wrapping up all the story lines and keeping the mixture of comedy, tragedy, and mystery moving forward at a fast-enough clip for our 21st-century attention spans.
And no annoying "story-within-a-story" interludes to slow things down.
 One of Dickens' best. July 21, 2008
My favorite Dickens novel, and one I pull out again every few years for a re-read. I'm probably drawn to it at least partly because of Dickens' own partiality to it - he was quoted as calling it his "favorite child", and much of the material is said to be inspired by his own life experiences. It's the kind of tale rarely told anymore: just a simple, unvarnished, yet detailed portrayal of a life. Reading it is like perusing the diary of a person much like ourselves - someone who just lives his or her life from day to day, peppered with their own small dramas and adventures, with few things particularly tremendous or earth-shattering on any large scale, except to that person. The Story of Me, so to speak. Again, not the kind of story told very often anymore, presumably due to our need for more far-reaching plot lines and reading experiences that take us out of our normal range of experience. In the Victorian period, however, the serial novel - produced in bits via magazines - were the fad of the day, so readers looked forward to everyday goings-on of the young David Copperfield, whom we get to know, literally, from birth.
In what I think of as classic Dickens (and later, Alger) fashion, David as a young boy finds himself at the mercy of adults who should care for him but do not, and after a miserable childhood is eager to make his own way in the world, and this is when his life truly begins. Along the way he meets some of the most memorable of the many unforgettable characters with whom Dickens has populated his novels: David's loathsome stepfather and step-aunt, the Murdstones, the hysterically loquacious Micawber, David's dear nurse Peggotty, the frivolous Dora and her fiercely silly dog, the sensible, understanding Agnes, and the detestable Uriah Heep, among many others - Steerforth, Emily, Tommy Traddles, Ham, Mr. Peggotty, Mrs. Gummidge...the list goes on, each character more delightful than the next. Amidst the minutiae are the very real dramas of every day life - a young woman's ruined reputation, a mismatched marriage made and endured, the ever-hovering threat of poverty and disgrace in a tenuous world, betrayals in both love and commerce, and every small experience of love, struggle, and redemption are played out here.
For me David Copperfield will always be a treasure of a story, one that spotlights how each of our lives, no matter how seemingly small or unremarkable, are truly enormous oceans of experiences unique to each one of us.
No wonder Dickens was deemed one of the best English writers, ever! August 19, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had read the Chinese version of "David Copperfield" when I was about 14, and enjoyed it very much, though it didn't leave much trace in my mind after I grew up. I was glad to be able to enjoy it a second time recently. This time I read the English version, that is, the original work of the great writer Charles Dickens. I was immediately subdued by Dickens' mastery of the language. Reading the book is just like having someone very talented in telling stories talking to you. The rhythms in the language of this book are simply beautiful. Very, very beautiful. Although there're a lot of long sentences in this book (the longest one seemed to be the one in the chapter of Copperfield's wedding, about 2-3 pages for a single sentence. Can you imagine that!), it seems very natural to read -- just like having someone very smart, very passionate and very eloquent talking to you. Although it's about 900 pages, although it's a novel published more than 150 years ago, it's not boring at all to read! I was taken by the story at the first page, and continued enjoying it during these several months, and finished the last page tonight with a satisfied smile, as if I had just finished a gorgeous banquet! No wonder Dickens was deemed one of the best English writers ever! He really had a wonderful mastery of the language, and was really good at telling stories!
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