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David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics):
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 Dickens's exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them."This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.
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Edition: 2000 Moder
Published by Modern Library on 2000-11-28.
Average rating (26 reviews):
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 Rating: 9.0 |
Recent reviews:
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-05-15: David Copperfield truly IS a wonderful novel. As has been stated, everything fits together too nicely in the end but let's face it, sometimes ya' just need that. The ending certainly is not far fetched.
This is NOT a (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-03-31: This is by far my favorite book.
I am a huge Dickens fan. I've read four of his books, Hard Times, David Copperfield, a tale of two cities, and Oliver Twist and out of all these great books {all (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-03-17: "David Copperfield" is perhaps Charles Dickens' finest novel (followed closely by "Dombey and Son"). I have just finished it for the second time and had forgotten how endearing David's character is. He is perhaps the only Dickens hero that doesn't remain (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
Reviewed by anonymous on 2006-03-06: In his preface to the Charles Dickens Edition of the novel(1867), the author wrote:"Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
Reviewed by anonymous on 2005-12-14: I just want to add my voice to the other 5-star reviews. I would say that David Copperfield is one of the three best novels of the 19th Century (the others being Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov). It has one of (read more ...)
Rating: 10.0
