David CopperfieldCharles Dickens’s most famous novel was also his own favorite, and the one that drew most on his own life story. David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic. In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes his experiences into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired. Few readers can fail to be touched by David’s fate, and fewer still to be delighted by his story. The cruel Murdstone, the feckless Micawber, the unctuous and sinister Uriah Heep, and David Copperfield himself, into whose portrait Dickens poured so much of his own early life, form an enduring part of our literary legacy. |
Contents
My First Half at Salem House | 88 |
My Holidays Especially one Happy | 106 |
dont like it 153 | 153 |
Liking Life on my own Account no better | 168 |
The Sequel of my Resolution | 178 |
My Aunt makes up her Mind about | 198 |
than | 223 |
Somebody turns | 244 |
Another Retrospect | 616 |
Our Housekeeping | 624 |
Mr Dick fulfils my Aunts Predictions | 639 |
Intelligence | 654 |
Martha | 668 |
Domestic | 679 |
am Involved in Mystery | 690 |
Mr Peggottys Dream comes true | 703 |
A Retrospect | 262 |
Little Emly | 294 |
Some old Scenes and some new People | 313 |
My first Dissipation | 335 |
ི ིི ཎྞཱ ིི སྐྱེ སྐྱ | 403 |
The Beginning of a long Journey | 447 |
Blissful | 465 |
My Aunt astonishes me | 482 |
Depression | 490 |
Enthusiasm SII 37 A little Cold Water | 528 |
A Dissolution of Partnership | 536 |
Wickfield and Heep | 552 |
The Wanderer | 571 |
Doras Aunts | 580 |
Mischief | 596 |
The Beginning of a longer Journey | 713 |
assist at an Explosion | 730 |
Another Retrospect | 753 |
Mr Micawbers Transactions | 758 |
Tempest | 774 |
The New Wound and the Old | 786 |
The Emigrants | 792 |
Absence | 802 |
Return | 809 |
Agnes | 825 |
am shown Two Interesting Penitents | 834 |
A Light shines on my Way | 846 |
A Visitor | 854 |
A Last Retrospect | 862 |
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