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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)by: Charles Dickens  Amazon.com's Price: $8.00 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9780140439441 Edition: Revised ISBN: 0140439447 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1024 Publication Date: December 28, 2004 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and 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; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature’s great comic creations. In David Copperfield—the novel he described as his "favorite child"—Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - David CopperfieldWhat a wonderful read. Times were tougher then but so were the people. Intriguing all the way through. I've been trying to catch up on some old classics and I couldn't have chosen a better one. I'm going to read more of Charles Dickens. Rating: - classic classicThe historic Penguin with explanatory notes and crisp delineation of the illustrations. The notes are well organized and straightforward, and you will need them.A writer it is said, only gets to spin his own tale once, my feeling is that Dickens does that here with the unforgettably grittiest descriptive narrative scenes in all of Victorian literature. Rating: - BeautifulIf you are used to reading contemporary fiction (as I am), this will be slower and harder to get into that you may be used to. I gave it the chance and it has become one of my favorite reads ever. Great characters, a compelling story and beautifully told. Easy to see why this is a literary classic. Rating: - Comedy, tragedy, and mysteryClassic of the caliber of Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics). Dickens does a great job of wrapping up all the story lines and keeping the mixture of comedy, tragedy, and mystery moving forward at a fast-enough clip for our 21st-century attention spans. And no annoying "story-within-a-story" interludes to slow things down. Rating: - One of Dickens' best.My favorite Dickens novel, and one I pull out again every few years for a re-read. I'm probably drawn to it at least partly because of Dickens' own partiality to it - he was quoted as calling it his "favorite child", and much of the material is said to be inspired by his own life experiences. It's the kind of tale rarely told anymore: just a simple, unvarnished, yet detailed portrayal of a life. Reading it is like perusing the diary of a person much like ourselves - someone who just lives his ... Read More 
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