David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 1995, Reinforced Hardcover: items on eBay.com

Description: A guide to reading "David Copperfield" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestion...

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Synopsis
A guide to reading "David Copperfield" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

A simplified edition of the autobiographical novel whose hero, an orphan boy in nineteenth-century England, successfully overcomes an unhappy childhood.

Dickens himself prepared this text from the novel especially for his own public readings he frequently gave of his works.

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 death he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. A sprawling portrait of life in Victorian England, DAVID COPPERFIELD is perhaps Dickens's most popular work, and it contains many of the characters--Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth, and Little Emily--who gave Dickens his reputation as the finest literary portraitist of his age.

Details
Publication Date:	1995-10-01
Illustrator:	Alan Marks

Size
Height:	11.8 in
Width:	8.8 in
Thickness:	0.5 in
Weight:	20.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Abridged for public reading by the author, this poignant story follows the tragedies of the Peggotty family; the pathos of Steerforth's death; comic scenes involving David, Dora, and Mr. Macawber; and the climactic storm at Yarmouth.

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