David Copperfield

Charles Dickens; Andrew Sanders

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens , Nina Burgis , and Andrew Sanders

Abstract

‘I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,’ wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and in the first-person narrative, a new departure for him, realized marvellously the workings of memory. The embodiment of his boyhood experience in the novel involved a ‘complicated interweaving of truth and fiction’, at its most subtle in the portrait of his father as Mr Micawber, one of Dickens’s greatest comic creations. Enjoying a humour that never becomes caricature, the reader shares David’s affection for the eccentric Betsey Trotwood and her protégé Mr Dick, and smiles with the narrator at the trials he endures in his love for the delightfully silly Dora. Settings, (East Anglia, the London of the 1820s), people, and events are unified by their relationship to the story of Steerforth’s treachery, which reaches its powerful climax in the storm scene. This edition, which has the accurate Clarendon text, includes Dickens’s trial titles and working notes, and eight of the original illustrations by ‘Phiz’.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

ISBN:: 9780199536290

DOI:: 10.1093/owc/9780199536290.001.0001

Authors

Charles Dickens, author

Nina Burgis, editor

Andrew Sanders, author

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Front Matter
David Copperfield
- Chapter I I am BornCharles Dickens
- Chapter II I ObserveCharles Dickens
- Chapter III I Have A ChangeCharles Dickens
- Chapter IV I Fall into DisgraceCharles Dickens
- Chapter V I am Sent Away From HomeCharles Dickens
- Chapter VI I Enlarge My Circle of AcquaintanceCharles Dickens
- Chapter VII My “First Half” at Salem HouseCharles Dickens
- Chapter VIII My Holidays. Especially One Happy AfternoonCharles Dickens
- Chapter IX I Have A Memorable BirthdayCharles Dickens
- Chapter X I Become Neglected, And Am Provided ForCharles Dickens
- Chapter XI I Begin Life On My Own Account, And Don’t Like ItCharles Dickens
- Chapter XII Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a Great ResolutionCharles Dickens
- Chapter XIII The Sequel of My ResolutionCharles Dickens
- Chapter XIV My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind About MeCharles Dickens
- Chapter XV I Make Another BeginningCharles Dickens
- Chapter XVI I Am a New Boy In More Senses Than OneCharles Dickens
- Chapter XVII Somebody Turns UpCharles Dickens
- Chapter XVIII A RetrospectCharles Dickens
- Chapter XIX I Look About Me, and Make A DiscoveryCharles Dickens
- Chapter XX Steerforth’s HomeCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXI Little Em’lyCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXII Some Old Scenes, and Some New PeopleCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXIII I Corroborate Mr. Dick, and Choose A ProfessionCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXIV My First DissipationCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXV Good and Bad AngelsCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXVI I Fall Into CaptivityCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXVII Tommy TraddlesCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXVIII Mr. Micawber’s GauntletCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXIX I Visit Steerforth at His Home, AgainCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXX A LossCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXI A Greater LossCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXII The Beginning of A Long JourneyCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXIII BlissfulCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXIV My Aunt Astonishes MeCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXV DepressionCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXVI EnthusiasmCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXVII A Little Cold WaterCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXVIII A Dissolution of PartnershipCharles Dickens
- Chapter XXXIX Wickfield and HeepCharles Dickens
- Chapter XL The WandererCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLI Dora’s AuntsCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLII MischiefCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLIII Another RetrospectCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLIV Our HousekeepingCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLV Mr. Dick Fulfils My Aunt’s PredictionCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLVI IntelligenceCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLVII MarthaCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLVIII DomesticCharles Dickens
- Chapter XLIX I Am Involved in MysteryCharles Dickens
- Chapter L Mr. Peggotty’s Dream Comes TrueCharles Dickens
- Chapter LI The Beginning of A Longer JourneyCharles Dickens
- Chapter LII I Assist At An ExplosionCharles Dickens
- Chapter LIII Another RetrospectCharles Dickens
- Chapter LIV Mr. Micawber’s TransactionsCharles Dickens
- Chapter LV TempestCharles Dickens
- Chapter LVI The New Wound, and The OldCharles Dickens
- Chapter LVII The EmigrantsCharles Dickens
- Chapter LVIII AbsenceCharles Dickens
- Chapter LIX ReturnCharles Dickens
- Chapter LX AgnesCharles Dickens
- Chapter LXI I Am Shown Two Interesting PenitentsCharles Dickens
- Chapter LXII A Light Shines on My WayCharles Dickens
- Chapter LXIII A VisitorCharles Dickens
- “To David Copperfield, Esquire, “The Eminent Author.Charles Dickens
- Chapter LXIV A Last RetrospectCharles Dickens
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