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NA PB-4 As with all of Dickens, it is the characters that make the book. Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mr. Peggotty, Peggotty, Mis Trotwood, etc. I did lose patience with David from time to time, particularly in his romantic idiocy, bu, on the whole it is an enjoyable book. Written in 1850, Dickens' 16th major work, and 8th novel, is a solid four-star work. Combining the picaresque bildungsroman from Dickens' early period with the more complex character studies he was becoming known for, it's perhaps his best book to this point. Perhaps because parts of the novel are autobiographical, David starts to feel a bit real in a sense that perhaps no other character in his canon had perhaps yet reached. There's a wonderful array of supporting characters and a real sense of forward movement and thematic unity. I'm ultimately more in tune with Dickens' last works, but David Copperfield is another rung on Dickens' ladder to immortality. He's not a Tolstoy or a Flaubert, and we shouldn't expect him to be. He treats character more as something to be chronicled than to be dissected. Nevertheless, there are many great, detailed little moments in David's life, and the world around him, that suggest the continuous development of this great author. I read this shortly after seeing the Armando Ianucci film of it, which perhaps did it a bit of disservice as I was constantly thinking about the actors in the film and where they had changed around the story, mainly to cut down a very long book into a reasonable length of film. Overall it's a great read, a big joy of a book where David Copperfield moves through a life of misfortune with great stoicism and acceptance. It's not all bad, he does well and finds some great friends and family to move through life with, but he certainly has his share of setbacks too. The characters are very much larger than life, Uriah Heep being a particularly loathsome specimen, and Betsy Trotwood being fabulously memorable.
David Copperfield relates the story of his life - transmuting many of the early experience of his creator - right from his birth to his attainment of settled maturity and successful authorship. On his journey, David encounters a gallery of memorable characters, kind, cruel or grotesque: Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep and Steerforth are among the many who shape his development. By turns absorbingly comic, dramatic, ironic and tender, the novel brings into energetic life the society and preoccupations of the mid-Victorian world Ingår i förlagsserienAlba Minus (22) — 34 till Everyman's Library (242) Las grandes novelas de aventuras (77,78) Modern Library (110.3) La nostra biblioteca Edipem (90-91) Penguin English Library (EL8) Zephyr Books (122,123) Ingår iFive Novels: A Christmas Carol/David Copperfield/Great Expectations/Oliver Twist/A Tale of Two Cities av Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol / David Copperfield / Great Expectations / Oliver Twist / The Pickwick Papers / A Tale of Two Cities av Charles Dickens Gesammelte Werke. Die Pickwickier, Nikals Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, Weihnachtsgeschichten, Bleakhaus, David Copperfield av Charles Dickens InnehållerÅterberättas iHar bearbetningenÄr avkortad iHar som instuderingsbok
Charles Dickens' 1850 classic epic, David Copperfield, unfolds the story of David, an optimistic and hard-working lad who's orphaned in his youth. Raised initially by his brutal stepfather, who halts David's schooling and sends him to work in a factory, David eventually finds a home with his eccentric, but kind aunt, Betsey. Later in life, David trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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