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Do you enjoy classic literature in easy-to-carry paperback? Then you'll love David Copperfield by Charles Dickens! The complete title of this Dicken novel 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). The main character has the nickname "Trotwood Copperfield". Perhaps you read David Copperfield in school as a youth or maybe this is your first time reading Charles Dickens's masterpiece or maybe you're a teacher buying the book for your children's literature class. Either way, enjoy Charles Dickens David Copperfield book today!

"Of all my books," says Charles Dickens in his preface to this immortal novel, "I like this the best. . . . Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield." When "David Copperfield' appeared in 1850, after "Dombey and Son" and before "Bleak House," it became so popular that its only rival was "Pickwick." Beneath the fiction lies much of the author's personal life, yet it is not an autobiography. The story treats of David's sad experiences as a child, his youth at school, and his struggles for a livelihood, and leaves him in early manhood, prosperous and happily married. Pathos, humor, and skill in delineation, give vitality to this remarkable work; and nowhere has Dickens filled his canvas with more vivid and diversified characters. Forster says that the author's favorites were the Peggotty family, composed of David's nurse Peggotty, who was married to Barkis, the carrier; Daniel Peggotty, her brother, a Yarmouth fisherman; Ham Peggotty, his nephew; the doleful Mrs. Gummidge; and Little Emily, ruined by David's schoolmate, Steerforth. "It has been their fate," says Forster, "as with all the leading figures of his invention, to pass their names into the language and become types; and he has nowhere given happier embodiment to that purity of homely goodness, which, by the kindly and all-reconciling influences of humor, may exalt into comeliness and even grandeur the clumsiest forms of humanity." ...

"I am born" begins David Copperfield, famously. However, this is a birth which is blighted by its timing: 12 o'clock on a Friday night at precisely the time the clock began to strike. Such untimeliness meant that David was destined to be unlucky in life and would be priviliged to see ghosts and spirits. A dubious privilege. In David Copperfield, ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are invoked in relation to a range of male characters' and situations. David is haunted by memories of people and of places he has been before. It is in the character of Uriah Heep,however, and in David's perception of and relationship with him, that the story is at its most supernatural.

Brand New.GREAT DEAL for a FABULOUS, OUT-OF-PRINT book in EXCELLENT condition!"Personal History Adventures Experiences and Observation of DAVID COPPERFIELD the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery" by Charles Dickens.Introduction by Kathryn Hughes , with the original illustrations by "PHIZ". Publisher The FOLIO SOCIETY, 2004 ( re-issued with a new binding 2011) , without D J as issued, in GIFT QUALITY CONDITION.Book size is 9 x 6 x 1 inches. Hardcover & Slipcase. Binding is tight and intact. Boarders are clean, straight and edges sharp. Perfectly crisp corners.Pages are clean and unmarked, unused/unread , excellent condition overall.