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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - Trade Paperback
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of...
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Paperback)
When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventure, David meets an array of eccentric characters and learns hard lessons about the world before he finally discovers true happiness.
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David Copperfield (Signet Classics) (Reissue) (Paperback)
Description This coming-of-age story presents David Copperfield, who suffers the wrath of his abusive stepfather and the betrayal of the scheming Uriah Heep, finds a new life with his formidable aunt, and falls deeply in love with childlike Dora, as he struggles to escape his impoverished and unhappy childhood. Reissue. Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age...
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The unabridged classic on MP3 audio, narrated by Anais 9000. Three playback speeds on one disk; etext edition included. Running time: 31.2 hours (slow), 28.5 hours (medium), 26.0 hours (fast).
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Intuitive navigation. Searchable and interlinked. Open the book you want to read with one click. Make bookmarks, notes, highlights. Text annotation and mark-up. Access the e-Book anytime, anywhere. Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.
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David Copperfield (Paperback)
Description A young boy endures hardships as a child laborer in this partly autobiographical classic reflecting social conditions in nineteenth-century England. Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains...
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"David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens, London, Bradbury & Evans, 1850.
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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Hardcover)
Partly modelled on his own life--although in no way a direct autobiography--David Copperfield follows a young boy's life, from his birth in Suffolk, through the trials and tribulations of childhood (including his mother's death), to his triumphant success as a novelist. The masterful early scenes, in particular, capture the perspective of a fatherless boy whose idyllic life with his mother and his nurse is destroyed when his mother marries a domineering and cruel man. The cast is filled with colorful...
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David Copperfield (Includes eBook Library Edition) (Workbook) (Paperback)
Description Dickens's heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man's rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens's own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. An ill-advised marriage brings him considerable unhappiness, but not long after his wife's...
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Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is th ...
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When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventure, David meets an array of eccentric characters and learns hard lessons about the world before he finally discovers true happiness.
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Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Land ...
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Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. No Dust Jacket. Collins, 500grams. Quantity available: 1.
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Charles Dickens's most celebrated novel and the author's own favorite, David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic.
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Charles Dickens was born in a little house in Land ...
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Charles Dickens's most celebrated novel and the au ...
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Charles Dickens is considered one of the English l ...
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In the novel he described as his favorite child, D ...
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