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| David Copperfield (Penguin Popular Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 6395
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0140620265
EAN: 9780140620269
ASIN: 0140620265
Publication Date: January 25, 2007
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Masterpiece in every sense December 24, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Although it is true that Dickens says in twenty words thing that could be expressed just as clearly in only five, there can be no arguing that he is an expert in manipulating his reader's feelings. "David Copperfield", which tells the story of this character's life, shows this skill really well. This book will make you cry in one chapter and laugh out loud in the next one. Dickens will also make his reader feel about his characters just as he wants you to feel about them. You'll never forget the cruel Murdstones, " `umble" Uriah Heep, angel-like Agnes and adorable though rather silly Dora. In addition to these memorable characters, I think all its readers will agree that "David Copperfield" is a complete work in every sense and I'm sure many of them will count it among their favourites.
Utterly fantastic May 20, 2003
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
For me, this may just pip "Great Expectations" as my vote for the BBC's Big Read thing.
Written in the first person, like "Great Expectations", the early part of the book is regarded as highly autobiographical. The range of styles, and the sweep of the plot, though, dazzles throughout.
True, the Little Emily stuff may be too melodramatic for today, but the characters here are Dickens at his very best. The odious Heep, the oh-so-brilliant Steerforth and the fumbling Mr Micawber.
On one level, yes they are caricatures, but I have met people just like Mr Heep, and not too far from Steerforth.
And when my boss denied me a raise in my salary the other day, claiming that were it down to her, she would certainly be looking to do it, but that her hands were tied by the senior management, I cast my mind straight back to David Copperfield trying to get a raise out of Spenlow and Jorkins. Timeless.
For a Dickens, it's a middling size of book, so it'll take time, but it won't wipe out a month, like "Little Dorrit", say.
Read this. Comic and tragic at turns, it is staggeringly brilliant writing.
A Masterpiece! June 9, 2001
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
My curiosity about the works of Charles Dickens drew me to this title. All I can say is that if curiosity killed the cat, than it must have been an extremely pleasant way to go! Dickens is a wordsmith of unquestionable mastery and I was astounded by his ability to draw the reader completely into the lives of his characters - to such an extent that we feel each set back and each triumph as keenly as they do. This is also a novel packed with emotion - anyone who can get through it without both laughing and crying must have a heart of stone. David Copperfield is an engrossing book that is rightly viewed as a literary classic - one that everybody should read.
overwhelmed September 5, 1999
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I am amazed at Charles Dickens ability to at once make you laugh out loud, then almost in the next sentence to bring a tear to the eye and an unswallowable lump to the throat. I have long said, that modern writers have a long long way to go to reach his exceptional standard.
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