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Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw, this beautiful clothbound Penguin edition presents Dickens’s great coming-of-age novel. David Copperfield is the book Dickens regarded as his “favourite child” and is considered his most autobiographical work. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly on his own life. The vivid cast includes Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, the “umble” Uriah Heep and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens’s own father that combines love, nostalgia and guilt. This comic and tragic Bildungsroman is filled with life. Charles Dickens (1812–70) enjoyed astounding success from his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, and went on to write fourteen full-length novels as well as extensive journalism. Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester.
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Author: Dickens Charles
Language: English
Publication date: February 8, 2016
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Penguin clothbound classics, Classic literature in english
Type: Hardcover books
ISBN/EAN: 9780141394640