01697    a2200229   4500001000700000020001500007040003200022100002100054245002200075250001300097260001400110300004500124362000900169490002900178520114500207650002001352650001201372650002401384650002501408650002201433650001201455124418  a0582088895  cEscola Canadense de Niteroi  aDickens, Charles10aDavid Copperfield  a1st. ed.  aHong Kong  a48 p.c1 x 7.68 x 0.1 inches (paperback)0 a19930 aLongman Picture Classics  aDavid Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850, and includes updated suggestions for further reading, original illustrations by 'Phiz', a revised chronology and expanded notes. In his new introduction, Jeremy Tambling discusses the novel's autobiographical elements, and its central themes of memory and identity. 4aFamily Problems 4aOrphans 4aAction or Adventure 4aJuvenile Literature  4aRomance (English) 4aJourney