David Copperfield
- Author Charles Dickens
- Narrator Geoffrey Howard, Ralph Cosham
- Publisher Craig Black
- Publish Date 19 April 2012
- Run Time 33 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction.
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What to expect
David Copperfieldis the timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to live and love in a cutthroat, indifferent adult world. It firmly embraces all the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood.
Of all Charles Dickens' novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time. Certainly Copperfield's experiences—his early rejection, child labor in a warehouse, experience as a journalist, and final success as a novelist—are strikingly similar to Dickens' own. It is little wonder that Dickens said of it, "Of all my books I like this the best…Like many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name isDavid Copperfield."
Critics Review
u201cDavid Copperfieldu00a0is Dickensu2019su00a0Hamlet...I canu2019t remember being so moved by one of his novels...What putsu00a0David Copperfieldu00a0right up there withu00a0Bleak Houseu00a0andu00a0Great Expectations, however, is its sweet nature, and its surprising modernity...Completingu00a0David Copperfieldu00a0has left me feeling bereft.u201d
“The most perfect of all the Dickens novels.”
u201cWhat a pleasure to have the opportunity of praising a work so sound, a work so rich in merit, asu00a0David Copperfield!u2026Of the contemporary rubbish which is shot so plentifully all around us, we can, indeed, hardly read too little.u00a0u00a0But to contemporary work so good asu00a0David Copperfield, we are in danger of perhaps not paying respect enough.u201d
u201cAccording to the general voice of the critics, Copperfield is one of the best of Mr. Dickensu2019s stories, written with decidedly more care and effort than its immediate processors, as if the author had determined to show the captious public that his genius was fine and fresh as ever.u201d
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