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Title: David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens, Jeremy Tambling ISBN: 0-14-043494-1 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (85 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Dickens at his best...and occasionally, at his worst.
Comment: This book seems to have polarised its many online reviewers. I'm not really surprised. David Copperfield is Dickens at his very best and occasionally (but only occasionally) at his worst. It is a long book; the sentimentality is poured on with a shovel; there are long passages that don't seem to take the plot anywhere. But it has some of Dickens' greatest characters; the plot is powerful and driving; and the first person narrative (unusual for Dickens) makes the story particularly involving. Overall, it deserves to be considered one of Dickens best books. The major low for me was the 'child wife' character - dreadfully unreal and irritating. But the contrast to this was Steerforth, who I rate as perhaps the most interesting and believable character Dickens has ever created. Unlike so many of Dickens' cartoon villains, Steerforth walked the all too human line between good and evil so beautifully that, like David Copperfield, one could hardly help loving him even when we are despising him. Uriah Heep may be the character most reviewers mention, but it is Steerforth that makes David Copperfield my favourite Dickens novel.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Work of Masterpiece by the Master himself...
Comment: Charles Dickens is synonymous with literary masterpieces... And rereading this book again since high school has given me a new appreciation for this author's work. He brings us humanity at every angle... the goodness and evil, love and hate, life and death is displayed in his writing. It's about a young boy who overcomes being orphaned and child labor to become a man of his "own account" and finding true love. Although, even after all the trials and tribulations that he goes through, he still remains pure and consistent. The good in him, since a young boy, remains in him as an adult. David Copperfield is amazing. He brings us many memorable characters and even more memorable scenes. Who could forget Mr. Micawber, Miss Betsy Trotwood and Uriah Heep? And the scenes from his early childhood to all that takes place in the Yarmouth seashore is unforgettable. More like a memoir than a fiction, this pseudo autobiography must have been close to the author's heart. Dickens himself said in his later years that David Copperfield is his "favorite child".
What a wonderful book. I've cried and laughed, even though, I didn't think I would enjoy this book. I was thoroughly absorbed from the very beginning and couldn't put this book down. One of those books you should read once in your lifetime...if not twice.
Julianne
Rating: 3
Summary: Why books should not be written in weekly installments
Comment: Three major pitfalls are usually inevitable in the work of an author who publishes his novels in serial format for literary magazines, as Charles Dickens did. The first is that the medium does not allow for editing and revision upon completion of a first draft. The second is that the author is under the constant pressure of a weekly deadline. And the third is that the author is paid by the word. All three flaws are glaring in David Copperfield.
If Dickens had been able to look over this novel as a whole, surely he would have made serious revisions to it. The dramatic tension of the plot is poorly calibrated. It peaks a half dozen times throughout the book, which only confuses the reader and leaves him feeling betrayed when the plot simply moves on to something else. What was the point of the climax in the early pages of the book, when Mr. Murdstone takes over Copperfield's happy home and begins to wreak havoc? Murdstone's character should have reappeared later in the book in more prominent fashion, as the evil foil to our hero, and he surely would have in a book that had been properly revised as a holistic work.
There are certainly many memorable characters and scenes in this book, but there are also several that should have been left out. But writing fifty chapters keeps an author employed for fifty weeks, and that is why this book is 750 pages instead of 450.
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Title: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ISBN: 0812580036 Publisher: Tor Classics Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Frederick Busch ISBN: 0451526562 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens, Mark Ford, Hablot K. Browne ISBN: 0140435123 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ISBN: 0679405798 Publisher: Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Pub. Date: 10 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens, Mark Wormald ISBN: 0140436111 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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