David Copperfield / Charles Dickens ; with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling.
Material type: TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublisher: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2004Edition: Rev. edDescription: xliv, 974 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0140439447
- 9780140439441
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | DICKENS, CHARLES | Available | 33111009637048 |
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'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo Tolstoy
In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant but unworthy school-friend Steerforth; 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.
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeremy Tambling
Includes bibliographical references.
David Copperfield, whose stepfather casts him out after the death of David's mother, lives through trials and tribulations, first at a boys' school and then as a young man in London before he goes to live with his great-aunt and eventually finds happiness.
A Dickens chronology -- Introduction -- Further reading -- A note on the text -- David Copperfield -- Appendix I: Extracts from John Forster's Life of Dickens -- Appendix II: The number-plans for David Copperfield -- Appendix III: The draft titles -- Notes.