Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
928
Language
English
Published
May 21, 2019
Description
Dickens’s eighth novel, his favorite, has an intimate relationship to his own story: “C. D.” becomes “D. C.” Some months before he began it, he had sat down to write the story of his childhood degradation for the first and only time in his life. The experience was too painful and Dickens abandoned the autobiographical attempt. Yet the material found its way, often word for word, directly into the first-person fiction of David Copperfield, which, as Dickens puts it semijokingly in the subtitle, the hero “never meant to be published on any account.”
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Audiobook 馃帶 Definitely better than A Tale of Two Cities 馃樀鈥嶐煉� The beginning and the ending were the best parts, I really liked the story of little David more.
July 30th 2026
Quando, nel 1850, pubblica David Copperfield, Charles Dickens offre ai suoi lettori per la prima volta un romanzo da lui scritto in prima persona e, dietro la storia del giovane protagonista, quelle che si possono leggere sono a volte le vicende personali dell’autore stesso. Ma ciò che si viene delineando attraverso i primi dolorosi anni, il duro apprendistato di vita in fabbrica, e poi la fuga e il vagabondare picaresco del giovane Copperfield, è soprattutto un romanzo di formazione in cui il personaggio si fa biografo di se stesso.
February 19th 2026