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020			_a9780140439441
082			_a823.8 _bDIC/D
100			_aDickens, Charles
245			_aDavid Copperfield
260			_aLondon _bPenguin Books _c2002
300			_a974p.
500			_aWith an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling
520			_aDavid 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. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850, and includes updated suggestions for further reading, original illustrations by 'Phiz', a revised chronology and expanded notes. In his new introduction, Jeremy Tambling discusses the novel's autobiographical elements, and its central themes of memory and identity.
650			_aEngland
650			_aYoung men
650			_aOrphans
650			_aChild labor
650			_aStepfathers
650			_aBoys
650			_aManners and customs
650			_aEngland--London
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