David Copperfield (Oxford World's Classics)

David Copperfield--------------------------------------------------I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVIDCOPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainlyone of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the bookafter the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employmentas a child in a London warehouse, and in the first-person narrative,a new departure for him, realized marvellously the workings of memory.The embodiment of his boyhood experience in the novel involved a 'complicatedinterweaving of truth and fiction', at its most subtle in the portraitof his father as Mr Micawber, one of Dickens's greatest comic creations.Enjoying a humour that never becomes caricature, the reader sharesDavid's affection for the eccentric Betsey Trotwood and her protegeMr Dick, and smiles with the narrator at the trials he endures in hislove for the delightfully silly Dora. Settings, (East Anglia, theLondon of the 1820s), people, and events are unified by their relationshipto the story of Steerforth's treachery, which reaches its powerfulclimax in the storm scene. This edition, which has the accurate Clarendontext, includes Dickens's trial titles and working notes, and eightof the original illustrations by 'Phiz'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest rangeof literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflectsOxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate textplus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductionsby leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-datebibliographies for further study, and much more.