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020			_a9780140439441
082			_a823.8 _bDIC
100			_aDickens, Charles
245			_aDavid copperfield
260			_bPenguin Classics, _aNew York : _c2004.
300			_axliv,974 p. ; _c20 cm
365			_b499.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics
520			_aFor David Copperfield, orphaned and with a cruel stepfather, the future looks bleak. But a new start beckons with the magnificent Mr Micawber, then with his eccentric aunt, Betsey Trotwood. 'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel. David Copperfield, whose stepfather casts him out after the death of David's mother, lives through trials and tribulations, first at a boys' school and then as a young man in London before he goes to live with his great-aunt and eventually finds happiness
650			_aEngland novels
650			_aAutobiographical fiction
650			_aChild labor fiction
650			_aYoung men novels
650			_aStepfathers fiction
650			_aOrphans fiction
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