Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci,starring Dev Patel,Tilda Swinton,Hugh Laurie,Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists'Leo TolstoyIn David Copperfield - the novel he described as his'favourite child'- Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works,filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather,Mr Murdstone; his brilliant but unworthy school-friend Steerforth; his formidable aunt,Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous,enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber,one of literature's great comic creations. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeremy Tambling
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140439441Number of pages: 1024Weight: 692 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 43 mm
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"The most perfect of all the Dickens novels."-Virginia Woolf
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A towering figure in the development of the novel,Charles Dickens was a British writer responsible for some of the best-loved works in the English language,including Oliver Twist,David Copperfield,A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations.
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