Name: David Copperfield (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) von Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) Zusammenfassung

David Copperfield (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) Charles Dickens

Dickens' supremely timeless work on ambition and self-improvement.

'I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'

Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not just with the upper classes but also with dangerous criminals. Pip's desire to improve himself is matched only by his longing for the icy-hearted Estella, but secrets from the past impede his progress and he has many hard lessons to learn.

A beautiful and quirky collectible edition as part of the Vintage Classics Dickens series.
Also includes:

A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
David Copperfield
Hard Times
Oliver Twist

David Copperfield (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) Bewertungen

The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists -- Leo Tolstoy
Dickens did what very few writers have managed to not only describe a city, but to define it... For all his sentimentality, [Dickens] was an extraordinary person, inseparable inthe imagination from London, just as London is inseparable from Dickens * Time Out *
David Copperfield is Dickens's Hamlet... I can't remember being so moved by one of his novels... What puts David Copperfield right up there with Bleak House and Great Expectations, however, is its sweet nature, and its surprising modernity... Completing David Copperfield has left me feeling bereft -- Nick Hornby
I came to Dickens relatively late in life, but in a way, I think that's the best time. When you're a child, all you see is the plum-pudding characterization and twisting-and-turning storylines, and though that is part of the juicy pleasure of Dickens, you need to be an adult to get the heartbreaking measure of his genius. And nothing shows that more, for me, than David Copperfield. It's the fullest, most breathtakingly truthful story of life - not for nothing was it Freud's favorite novel -- Nigella Lawson

Über Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. Fagin is named after a boy Dickens disliked at the factory. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. He separated from his wife in 1858. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, leaving his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR009049348

ISBN 13

9781784873424

ISBN 10

178487342X

Titel

David Copperfield (Vintage Classics Dickens Series) Charles Dickens

Autor

Charles Dickens

Serien

Vintage Classics Dickens Series

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

20171102

Anzahl der Seiten

912

Preise

N/A

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