David Copperfield, with eBook (Tantor Unabridged Classics)

A Chapter a Day My wife and I have been reading this together, a chapter a day over the past ten weeks. It has been a revelation for me, largely because I had somehow picked up a prejudice against Dickens, and this is the first novel of his that I have attempted as a mature reader. What an achievement: suspenseful, dramatic, crammed with marvelous characters, and often very funny! Reading it has totally transformed my view of the author, showing him as the master he is, whether on the small scale of sentence and paragraph or the vast one of the entire thousand-page span.The cha. BLEAK HOUSE: comparing Penguin & Oxford editions If you've decided to read Dicken's BLEAK HOUSE, one of the longest of the great English-language classics, your next decision is probably which edition to read. The Signet paperback edition is perfectly readable, as are most other simple editions. They have the text, and often the original illustrations, and sometimes a helpful introductory essay by some scholar. But, if you're in the long haul, you probably would want an annotated edition with lots of reader aides. Your two most obvious choices are the Penguin paperback and the Oxford World Classics paperback. . 19th-century binge-watching Jason A. Miller It's important, when reading this, to remember that "David Copperfield" was originally published in 20 monthly installments, rather than as a single work of fiction. Each installment was only 3 to 4 chapters long, and the final two installments were released together as a double-volume. This was kind of like 19th-century Netflix; you got to watch the two-part series finale all at once rather than have to wait another week to see how it all turned out.When read as a single novel, there's a fair bit of repetition involved (and Dickens famously was paid by the word

And nothing shows that more, for me, than David Copperfield. "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 the

Among its gloriously vivid cast of characters, he encounters his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Micawber-a character resembling Dickens's own father. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; the frivolous, enchanting Dora; and one of literature's great comic creations, the magnificently impecunious Mr. David Copperfield is the quintessential novel by England's most beloved novelist. In David Copperfield-the novel he described as his "favorite child"-Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.. Based in part on Dickens's own life, it is the story of a young man's journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist