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Beautiful story and unforgettable characters, Déc 29 2003
I was absolutely charmed with the personality of David Copperfield, and I can easily understand why Charles Dickens called him his "favorite child" among his other creations. As David recounts the events of his life, starting from the day of his birth, his honesty immediately wins your heart. He is not afraid to share how naive and easily cheated on he was as a little boy; he readily admits it when he was being selfish; and if he did something less than smart, he tells the whole episode just as openly, without trying to make himself look better than he really did.Born to a very young and beautiful mother, six months after his father's death, young Davy enjoys happy life in a loving home - until his mother marries again. Mr. Murdstone, Davy's new father, who could have easily gained the boy's love and trust had he shown him some kindness, treats him instead as some wild, out-of-hand little monster who needs correction, discipline, and more correction. He soon gives up on the boy and sends him away to a boarding school where daily beatings are considered a most necessary part of education. When David's mother dies a year later, Mr. Murdstone decides that even this type of schooling is too good for the boy, and sends him to London, to work at a wine factory. David, only ten at the time, finds himself alone in the world. This book deserves to be read over and over again. The story is touching and beautifully written, and the characters are unforgettable.
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High marks for this one, Juil 7 2004
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Should I admit that I came to this book late in life? We had to read GREAT EXPECTATIONS in high school, while I understand that others had to read this book. So, these many years later I picked it up and was pleasantly surprised. Quite a bit longer than EXPECTATIONS, this one nevertheless is every bit as good. Written as an autobiography, the book narrates the life of a fatherless child who becomes an orphan at the early age of about eight or nine years. The story continues throughout David Copperfield's life and the plot is as rich as the characters he meets during the book. One of Charles Dickens most notable qualities is how well he creates and describes the characters in his books. And David Copperfield presents plenty of them, some of the most famous: the strong-minded Betsey Trotwood, the lovely Peggotty family, the persuasive Steerforth, the wise Agnes, the ugly Uriah Heep and of course the micawberish Mr Micawber. If you're looking for a book by Dicken's that is his most autobiographical, this is it. Would also recommend "Of Mice and Men," "Bark of the Dogwood" and "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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Good people making bad decisions, Fév 21 2003
"David Copperfield" is a classic Dickens novel, full of wonderful, interesting characters who experience all of the hardships and joys that the world can through at them. The writing is vital and captivating, as with all of his wonderful books.Most interesting, I feel, to David Copperfield, is the bad choices that good people can make, and how they live with the repercussions of those choices. Represented by Little Emily's misfortune, and David Copperfield's own woeful marriage, as well as his aunt's various misjudgments and errors. Some deal with these bad choices honorably, some woefully, some disastrously. We all make mistakes, the book says, but it is how we deal with these mistakes that define us. The book travels from the high to the low and back again of the British class system, although not necessarily a critique of it., with David Copperfield being able to flow through each social structure at one time or another. A full picture is gained. There are heroes and villains alike amongst the most-very humble and the most-very rich. Fortunes rise and fall, loves are won and lost, people live and die, all under the deft pen of Dickens, with his ability to wring both laughter and tears from a reader. (A cliché, I know, yet a true one.)
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