`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of...
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`I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD,' wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and in the first-person narrative, a new departure for him, realized marvellously the workings of memory. The embodiment of his boyhood experience in the novel involved a `complicated interweaving of truth and fiction', at its most subtle in the portrait of his father as Mr Micawber
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CONTENTS; Extra Illustrations; Introduction; Note on the Text; A Chronology of Charles Dickens; Map of London in the 1820s; DAVID COPPERFIELD; Preface, 1850; Contents; List of Illustrations; DAVID COPPERFIELD; Appendix A: Dicken's Autobiographical fragment: Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, and David Copperfield; Appendix B: Preface to the Charles Dickens Edition (1867); Appendix C: The Trial Titles ; Appendix D: The Number Plans ; Explanatory Notes; Further Reading
