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David Copperfield - OBER - Grade 6
Charles Dickens
Price
240.00
ISBN
9788125020325
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2001
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan

David Copperfield is not fictionalised autobiography but its nature reflects Dickens’s thinking and writing over a period of years. The story of David Copperfield has many parallels in Dickens’s own life, especially his childhood. He too, like David was sent to a blacking factory, when his father, John Dickens was imprisoned for debt. This period, as Dickens himself says, was the darkest in his life and the shame and resentment he felt, made his sufferings a secret he could not share with anyone. Thus, from a first-hand knowledge acquired under unhappy circumstances, Dickens gives his readers a glimpse of the unsavoury side of Victorian England-struggling poverty and debtor’s prisons. There are many characters in the novel whom Dickens knew and many places in London that David visits were frequented by Dickens himself. The novel also gives us two unforgettable characters-Uriah Heep and Mr Micawber, the latter being party based on Dickens’s father.

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was born at Landport near Portsmouth, England, where the happiest years of his childhood were spent. His father's financial difficulties forced him to work at a very early age. This were the darkest period of his life. He was however able to return to school and at fifteen became a solicitor's clerk and a parliamentary reporter. In his travels throughout England, he met many people, some of whom have been immortalised in his novels. Underlying the fun and humour and eccentric characters, is a deep sadness for the injustice and cruelty of the times that marks most of Dickens's works.
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