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Summary: This defines Victorian Melodrama for me
Review: When i first read the novel,I was intialy caught up in the story of David the boy-and found that David the man retained much of his childhood naivity.His biggest mistake was his marriage to Dora,who is wise enough at the end to say,"it would've been better had we loved each other as a boy and girl and forgotten it."He more than makes up by his second marriage to Agnes.Their relationship was a lasting love of concern and trust.The characters are all memorable and well defined.I loved Mr.Micawber,with his dramatics, his flowery language and his general optimism. Mr. Peggoty is a noble,self-sacrificing person.Betsy Trotwood is wise and practical.Mr.Dick,though simple-minded,is wise in his own way.Steerforth turns out less of a friend to David than Traddles. Edward Murdstone and Uriah Heep are villains whom I loved to hate.This is my favorite Dickens novel -probably for the same reason it was his...the biographical touches and the emotional bondings.
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Summary: My favorite book!!!!
Review: I really love this book, I cried, and laughed with it a lot, I have read it at least three times, I always read a Dicken's book if I can find one, and that it's hard in Mexico, althought I have read eight of them, and I can say that this one is the best
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Summary: Deeply engaging and overflowing with sentiment.
Review: David Copperfield seems a heart-felt and worthy attempt by Dickens to portray an experience he well knew. Our protagonist, David, is lovable and human. We groan with him in his struggles, laugh with him in his times of joy and are thoroughly mesmerized as we watch him grow from a little boy into a man. This novel presents an opportunity for its reader to grow along with David as we too have a chance to love, despise and recognize the true worth of the persons who colour his life. Dickens, in David Copperfield, creates a masterpiece and of all his books I love this the most.
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Summary: I think it is the best book by C.Dickens!
Review: This is a story about life of David Copperfield . C.Dickens`s "D.C." is his own biography,when he showed us the life of David,his opinions about the world , he(C.Dickens) showed us his childhood.
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Summary: David Copperfield is Dickens' Masterpiece
Review: David Copperfield is my favorite work by Dickens. It is the novel he wrote when, I think, he was at the peak of his creative powers. The descrpitions (especially of the critical storm scene) are powerful; the charachters are lively and well rounded. The book is never boring and examines many aspects of life. It has the ring of truth, even in its most eccentric characters. David Copperfield is more than a novel; it is an experience.
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Summary: Brilliant, despite the usual Dickensian irritations
Review: Like _A Tale of Two Cities_ and _Great Expectations_, Dickens' _David Copperfield_ gives us colorful characters, evocative descriptions of scenes and places, and penetrating observations on human nature. Like the other works, it also gives us numerous coincidences that try our suspension of disbelief sorely; like the others, it tends rather too much to wrap up all the loose threads at the end, and to punish the undeserving and reward the righteous. But these flaws must be overlooked, for there is so much else here which makes it such a wonderful work that we find ourselves not minding (...too much, usually) these minor failings.
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Summary: Dickens' Favourite Child
Review: David Copperfield, the semi-autobiographical account of Charles Dickens' life, provides a marvellous insight into the incidents during the life of one of the worlds greatest ever authors. Although the book is heavy-going to begin with, the reader quickly becomes absorbed by the ups and downs of David's childhood and compellingly reads on to the experiences of Davids later life. Although many people may not find the language and length of the book appealing, it is a fantasitc novel for those who are able to appreciate this great work of literature.
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Summary: One of the secondary novels of a great 19th century novelist
Review: David Copperfield is one of the least memorable of the dickens novels. It is NOT the first Dickens novel you should read, but if you enjoyed his other works, then this should satisfy your Dickens fix.
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Summary: Life Is A Great Storm
Review: David Copperfield, Dickens' favorite child, is an experience. Forget what your high school teacher or college professor told you. Forget all the terribly bad film representations of this book. Forget the glib one-liner reviews about Dickens people being caricatures instead of characters. READ this book. This book is one of the few Real Books in this world. The great storm scene alone will thunder forever in your memories. You will encounter with Copperfield:
• the evil, chilling Uriah Heep,
• the mental and physical destruction of his mother by a Puritanical,untilitarian step-father,
• the always in-debt Mr. Mawcawber who somehow transcends his economic and egocentric needs into something noble,
• the betrayal of Copperfield by his best friend and Copperfield's shattered emotions by this betrayal,
• the ruination of another close friend's reputation, and her step-by-step climb back out of the mire,
• Copperfield's own passionate step into marriage while too young with an irresponsible, yet innocent child-woman, her death,
• Copperfield's own rise from poverty and orphanhood into worldly success but empty life until mature love rescues him. Dickens has a real gift for creating people that irritate you, yet gradually you come to love them - just like folks in real life. If you never have read Dickens, come meet David Copperfield. You'll find that your impressions of David from the brief snippets by critics, teachers, reviewers, professors and know-it-alls completely different than the Real Thing.
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Summary: A Victorian Page Turner
Review: I love to ask people "What is your favorite novel of all time?" so of course they return the favor to ask me the same question. I always answer that I have two favorites: David Copperfield and Anna Karenina (Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird are next.) I love David Copperfield because it is funny, dramatic and a rolicking good story. If it were published today it would be a bestseller and less successful authors would be complaining that it is not literature. (Perhaps because it has a plot.) David Copperfield will destroy many of your preconceived notions about Dickens ie. that he is wordy, ponderous, dull and requires an academic attention span. Another notion is that Dickens characters are more "charicatures" than characters. (Movies and plays seldom bring out the heart of Dicken's stories.) This book is fun and the people in it are so real that they stay with you for life. For example, the Macawbers will remind almost everybody of people who live solely on credit cards. I've recommended this book to many people and they are all amazed that it is funny and hard to put down!
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