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The Personal History of David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. 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). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. The novel features the character David Copperfield and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the web of friends and enemies he meets along his way. Copperfield finds career success as an author and is a person of deep emotions.Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens's own life, and it is often considered his veiled autobiography. It was Dickens' favorite among his own novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote, "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield."Like some of his other novels, it contains descriptions of child exploitation and abuse, some based both on his own childhood experiences, and other published reports.

Comes with illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne.Some typographical errors have been corrected (mentioned)."David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy & 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; & the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature’s great comic creations."[source: Goodreads.com]

The Personal History of David Copperfield is Charles Dickens’s eighth novel. First published in 1850, the novel's original 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)”.The Personal History of David Copperfield is written in the first person, by the main character David Copperfield, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends and enemies he meets along his way. It is his journey from being an impoverished, neglected child to a successful author.Often considered Charles Dickens’s veiled autobiography, The Personal History of David Copperfield follow many elements of the events in his own life. It was Charles Dickens’s favorite among his own novels, and in his own words "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield."

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