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David Copperfield

By Charles Dickens
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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David Copperfield is Charles Dickens's deeply personal novel, narrated in the first person to brilliantly capture the workings of memory. Drawing on Dickens's own childhood experiences, it weaves a complex tale of truth and fiction. The story follows David's life from youth to maturity, featuring memorable characters such as the comic Mr Micawber, the eccentric Betsey Trotwood, and David's love interest, the charmingly naive Dora. Set against the backdrop of 1820s East Anglia and London, the novel builds to a powerful climax involving Steerforth's betrayal during a dramatic storm.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This edition is ideal for students, classic literature enthusiasts, and readers interested in a richly annotated text that offers both historical context and critical insight.

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"I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield," wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels.

Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and in the first-person narrative, a new departure for him, realised marvellously the workings of memory. The embodiment of his boyhood experience in the novel involved a "complicated interweaving of truth and fiction", at its most subtle in the portrait of his father as Mr Micawber, one of Dickens's greatest comic creations.

Enjoying a humour that never becomes caricature, the reader shares David's affection for the eccentric Betsey Trotwood and her protégé Mr Dick, and smiles with the narrator at the trials he endures in his love for the delightfully silly Dora. Settings, (East Anglia, the London of the 1820s), people, and events are unified by their relationship to the story of Steerforth's treachery, which reaches its powerful climax in the storm scene.

This edition, which has the accurate Clarendon text, includes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, and eight of the original illustrations by 'Phiz'.

About the Series: For over 100 years, Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Academic commentary praises this Oxford World's Classics edition for its introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders, which enhance understanding of period details and the novel's structure, making it a preferred choice for educational purposes. Helge Nowak from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität endorses its usefulness for teaching Dickens's works.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780199536290

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 May 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Illustration: frontispiece map, 8 illustrations by `Phiz'

Contributors:

  • Edited by Nina Burgis
  • Introduction by Andrew Sanders

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 42.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 634g

Pages: 944

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