David Copperfield.
Title:
David Copperfield.
Author:
Dickens, Charles.
ISBN:
9780191592607
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1274 pages)
Series:
Oxford Worlds Classics
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Extra Illustrations -- Introduction -- Note On The Text -- A Chronology Of Charles Dickens -- Map of London in the 1820S -- David Copperfield -- Preface -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- David Copperfield -- I -- CHAPTER I I AM BORN -- CHAPTER II I OBSERVE -- CHAPTER III I HAVE A CHANGE -- II -- CHAPTER IV I FALL INTO DISGRACE -- CHAPTER V I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME -- CHAPTER VI I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE -- III -- CHAPTER VII MY "FIRST HALF" AT SALEM HOUSE -- CHAPTER VIII MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON -- CHAPTER IX I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY -- IV -- CHAPTER X I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR -- CHAPTER XI I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIKE IT -- CHAPTER XII LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FORM A GREAT RESOLUTION -- V -- CHAPTER XIII THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION -- CHAPTER XIV MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME -- CHAPTER XV I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING -- VI -- CHAPTER XVI I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE -- CHAPTER XVII SOMEBODY TURNS UP -- CHAPTER XVIII A RETROSPECT -- VII -- CHAPTER XIX I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY -- CHAPTER XX STEERFORTH'S HOME -- CHAPTER XXI LITTLE EM'LY -- VIII -- CHAPTER XXII SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE -- CHAPTER XXIII I CORROBORATE MR. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION -- CHAPTER XXIV MY FIRST DISSIPATION -- IX -- CHAPTER XXV GOOD AND BAD ANGELS -- CHAPTER XXVI I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY -- CHAPTER XXVII TOMMY TRADDLES -- X -- CHAPTER XXVIII MR. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET -- CHAPTER XXIX I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN -- CHAPTER XXX A LOSS -- XI -- CHAPTER XXXI A GREATER LOSS -- CHAPTER XXXII THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY -- CHAPTER XXXIII BLISSFUL -- CHAPTER XXXIV MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME -- XII -- CHAPTER XXXV DEPRESSION -- CHAPTER XXXVI ENTHUSIASM -- CHAPTER XXXVII A LITTLE COLD WATER -- XIII.
CHAPTER XXXVIII A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP -- CHAPTER XXXIX WICKFIELD AND HEEP -- CHAPTER XL THE WANDERER -- XIV -- CHAPTER XLI DORA'S AUNTS -- CHAPTER XLII MISCHIEF -- CHAPTER XLIII ANOTHER RETROSPECT -- XV -- CHAPTER XLIV OUR HOUSEKEEPING -- CHAPTER XLV MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTION -- CHAPTER XLVI INTELLIGENCE -- XVI -- CHAPTER XLVII MARTHA -- CHAPTER XLVIII DOMESTIC -- CHAPTER XLIX I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY -- CHAPTER L MR. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE -- XVII -- CHAPTER LI THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY -- CHAPTER LII I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION -- CHAPTER LIII ANOTHER RETROSPECT -- XVIII -- CHAPTER LIV MR. MICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS -- CHAPTER LV TEMPEST -- CHAPTER LVI THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD -- CHAPTER LVII THE EMIGRANTS -- XIX-XX -- CHAPTER LVIII ABSENCE -- CHAPTER LIX RETURN -- CHAPTER LX AGNES -- CHAPTER LXI I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS -- CHAPTER LXII A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY -- CHAPTER LXIII A VISITOR -- CHAPTER LXIV A LAST RETROSPECT -- Appendix A Dickens's autobiographical fragment, Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, and David Copperfield -- Section II of Book I of John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens -- Appendix B Preface To The Charles Dickens Edition (l867) -- Appendix C The Trial Titles -- Appendix D The Number Plans -- Explanatory Notes -- Further Reading.
Abstract:
`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, realized 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 becomescaricature, the reader shares David's affection for the eccentric Betsey Trotwood and her prot--eacute--;g--eacute--; 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 theirrelationship 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'.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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