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  • Published: 25 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141974330
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1008

David Copperfield




The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

With an essay by Matthew Arnold.

'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show'

Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, saviours, eccentrics and grotesques, including the wicked Mr Murdstone, stout-hearted Peggotty, formidable Betsey Trotwood, impecunious Micawber and odious Uriah Heep.

Dickens's great Bildungsroman (based, in part, on his own boyhood, and which he described as a 'favourite child') is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

  • Published: 25 July 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141974330
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1008

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