| David Copperfield Contributor(s): Dickens, Charles (Author), Gates, David (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679783415 ISBN-13: 9780679783411 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2000 Annotation: Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00064587 |
| Lexile Measure: 1070 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" (1.35 lbs) 896 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 704 Reading Level: 9.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 66.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes. |