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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. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback �dition.

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"The most perfect of all the Dickens novels."
--Virginia Woolf --Ce texte provient de la Paperback �dition.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Astonishing Classic; Irrefutably Powerful Novel, Avril 8 2004

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This review is from: David Copperfield (Paperback)

It has boggled my mind how some people can straight-facedly claim, with incorrect spelling and in poor grammar no less, that 'David Copperfield' was either boring, stupid, or both. I am a young man (not yet in my twenties) and I found 'Copperfield' to be the most emotionally powerful book I have ever read, if not necessarily the best written.
'Copperfield' marks a bold step forward in Dickens' writing, both in terms of diction (though his syntax never changes throughout his career) and its use thereof in advancing and establishing multiple moods during the course of the book. From the grim severity of Murdstone's dominance over David's mother, to the unexpected charity and kindness of David's Aunt, to the shadowy, damp, foreboding deaths of several main characters throughout the course of the book, the tone of the writing conveys, powerfully and with undeniable precision, the appropriate mood and instills the reader with exactly the emotion that should be felt. Even the marriages and losses of minor characters shrouds the reader in exactly the right blanket of rejoicing or of sorrow. There is more symbolism both unabashedly apparent and subtly bestowed here than in any of Dickens' previous novels.
There is a reason why this book is considered a classic - the dialogue is crisp and believable, the characters not so much caricatures as they had been in novels past, but more plausible and defined (the despicable Uriah Heep being perhaps the sole exception). The impact apparent in the betrayal, death, and ultimate good fortune so prominent in the book is not lost on the reader, as it would be in the hands of lesser writers. The lone points in the novel where I found my mind to wander were during Mr. Micawber's lengthy expositions, in which he is supposed to be comically exaggerated but instead comes off as something of a blowhard, simply an over-enthusiastic debtor with a knack for paperwork. Otherwise, this book is one of undeniable and irrepressible strength and fervor, from David's fated escape from the factory to Agnes' memorable proclamation; the whole novel works in remarkable symphony to create something better than just a book. It becomes an experience. For those who cannot quite grasp the genius and subtleties of Dickens's work, who complain because it is a little lengthy or a little old-fashioned, I feel sorry. They will never know how much bigger 'David Copperfield' - both the novel and the character - is than them.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 As bad as Brian land, F�v 11 2004

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David Copperfield is the worstest, most boringest, non-shinyest/dullest Book ?(if you can call it that)? that I ever haven't read. If I could, I'd make the official maker of Brian Land read it over and over and over again, just to keep him at bay.

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3.0�toiles sur 5 This is a novel?, Janv. 16 2004

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I am trying to read the world's greatest novels as found on internet lists. David Copperfield seems to be less of a novel than a long series of episodes that are thinly related to each other. Few of the episodes propel the plot forward. I know that Dickens wrote serially for magazines and it shows. Many of the characters seem like two dimensional caricatures rather than real human beings. The plots seems melodramatic. Still, Dickens can write movingly. I don't think that this is a great novel but it is readable and allows some good insight into what Victorian England was like.

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1.0�toiles sur 5 EEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLL
I hat this book it is the most detestible book ever written! If you make me read it AGAIN I will banish you to Brian Land and you will be my PERSONAL AID whenever I need you.

Publi� le D�c 4 2003

4.0�toiles sur 5 A Memorable Book
I read Great Expectations years ago, but after reading that David Copperfield was Dicken's personal favorite book he had authored, I decided to try him again. Read more

Publi� le Nov. 9 2003 par Melanie

5.0�toiles sur 5 Ignore the ignorant
Regarding the ignoramuses who claim David Copperfield is the "wost" book "i" have ever read, consider the source. Read more

Publi� le Nov. 7 2003

5.0�toiles sur 5 The Consummate Dickens
David Copperfield uses the story of Copperfield's life from birth through middle life to introduce and explore some wonderful personalities. Read more

Publi� le Oct. 31 2003 par J. B. Barton