Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 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.This edition uses the text of the first book edition of 1850Includes updated suggestions for further reading, a revised chronology, and expanded notesintroduction discusses the novel' s autobiographical elements and its central themes of memory and identity The classic saga of an orphaned boy making his way from the sweatshops of 19th-century London to finding family, love, and the good life by giving kindness and consideration to the people he meets along the way. 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. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. 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. With Copperfield this issue was probably exacerbated by its popularity: the serialisation was an instant hit with the public and so when the completed novel was available it was read heavily or rebound for posterity.Paperback. Like all of Dickens's octavo novels, the contents were simply too bulky for the flimsy binding. This is due in part to its shape and size. A large hardcover book bound in red cloth with gilt embellishments.
Sadleir listed it at the top of his list of comparative scarcities for Dickens in fine condition an we have found it consistently the most difficult of Dickens' major works to find in good unrepaired cloth. The first editions in book form of three of Charles Dickens best known novels.
It now ranks as one of the great novels of the nineteenth century. An exceptionally well preserved copy.ĭavid Copperfield, described by Dickens as "my favourite child", marks a step change in the author's career, a transition from composer of popular, picaresque, comedies to great novelist. Internally, generally very fresh with minor, superficial repair to the hinges, pronounced foxing to the frontispiece and engraved title, but the remainder of the plates, for the most part, notably clean. A very good copy indeed with the spine slightly faded and dusty and a few trivial marks, but the cloth entirely without repair. Thirty nine full page steel engravings by H. Publisher's primary binding of sage green cloth stamped in blind with ruled border and central arabesque to covers and lettered in gilt on the spine. First state of vignette title page (dated).
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