David Copperfield
About this book
It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody cares for Dickens heroines, least of all for Dora, but take it all in al, l this book is enjoyed by young people more than any other of the great novelist. After having read this you will wish to read Nicholas Nickleby for its mingling of pathos and humor, Martin Chuzzlewit for its pictures of American life as seen through English eyes, and Pickwick Papers for its crude but boisterous humor.
Subjects
- adaptations
- autobiographical fiction
- bildungsromane
- boys
- boys, fiction
- british and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- british fiction
- child labor
- children
- children's fiction
- chinese speakers
- classic literature
- coming of age
- drama
- employment
- england, fiction
- english domestic fiction
- english language
- english language -- study and teaching -- chinese speakers
- english literature
- families in literature
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, psychological
- fiction, romance, general
- general
- girls
- great britain, history, 19th century, fiction
- historical fiction
- history
- history and criticism
- juvenile fiction
- literature
- littérature anglaise
- manners and customs
- mongolian literature
- novelists
- orphans
- orphans, fiction
- readers
- readers (primary)
- social life and customs
- stepfathers
- stepparents, fiction
- study and teaching
- young men
- zhang pian xiao shuo