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David Copperfield

Summary: David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield." It is a Bildungsroman, a tale which follows the development into maturity of its narrator, David Copperfield. The Russian greats Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky both greatly admired the novel, as did Kafka, Joyce and James. Freud called it his favourite novel.

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  • ISBN: 1620116960 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9781620116968 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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    electronic resource
  • Publisher: [S.I.] : Duke Classics, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"From an 1869 edition"--T.p. verso.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, June 13, 2012).
Subject: Young men Fiction
Orphans England Fiction
England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction
Genre: Electronic books.
Bildungsromans.
Autobiographical fiction.

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Summary: David Copperfield is considered to be Charles Dickens's most autobiographical novel. He said of it: "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield." It is a Bildungsroman, a tale which follows the development into maturity of its narrator, David Copperfield. The Russian greats Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky both greatly admired the novel, as did Kafka, Joyce and James. Freud called it his favourite novel.

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