David Copperfield
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (865 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071WMRP1V |
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| Number of Pages | : | 524 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published as a serial in 1849-50 and as a book in 1850. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is often considered his veiled autobiography. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite
Roger Brunyate said A Chapter a Day. My wife and I have been reading this together, a chapter a day over the past ten weeks. It has been a revelation for me, largely because I had somehow picked up a prejudice against Dickens, and this is the first novel of his that I have attempted as a mature reader. What an achievement: suspenseful, dramatic, crammed with marvelous characters, and often very funny! Reading it has totally transformed my view of the author, showing him as the master he is, whether on the small scale of sentence and paragraph o. BLEAK HOUSE: comparing Penguin & Oxford editions If you've decided to read Dicken's BLEAK HOUSE, one of the longest of the great English-language classics, your next decision is probably which edition to read. The Signet paperback edition is perfectly readable, as are most other simple editions. They have the text, and often the original illustrations, and sometimes a helpful introductory essay by some scholar. But, if you're in the long haul, you probably would want an annotated edition with lots of reader aides. Your two most obvious choices are the Peng. 19th-century binge-watching Jason A. Miller It's important, when reading this, to remember that "David Copperfield" was originally published in 20 monthly installments, rather than as a single work of fiction. Each installment was only 3 to 4 chapters long, and the final two installments were released together as a double-volume. This was kind of like 19th-century Netflix; you got to watch the two-part series finale all at once rather than have to wait another week to see how it all turned out.When read as a single novel, there's a fair bit of repetit