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Dickens’s great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful clothbound Penguin edition This is the novel Dickens regarded as his ’favourite child’ and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the ’umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens’s own father which evokes a mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt. Dickens’s great Bildungsroman (based, in part, on his own boyhood) is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic. Charles Dickens (1812-70) had his first, astounding success with his first novel The Pickwick Papers and never looked back. In an extraordinarily full life he wrote, campaigned and spoke on a huge range of issues, and was involved in many of the key aspects of Victorian life, by turns cajoling, moving and irritating. He completed fourteen full-length novels and volume after volume of journalism. Of all his many works, he called David Copperfield his ’favourite child’. Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at the University of Manchester.

狄更斯伟大的成长小说，现在在一个美丽的精装企鹅版这是小说狄更斯被视为他的'最喜爱的孩子'，并被认为是他最自传体。当大卫讲述他从童年到发现他作为一个成功的小说家的职业的经历时，狄更斯公开地、揭露地描绘了他自己的生活。在这些栩栩如生的人物中，有罗莎·达特尔、朵拉、斯提福兹和乌利亚·希普，还有米考伯先生，这是狄更斯亲生父亲的肖像，唤起了爱、怀旧和内疚的混合。狄更斯的伟大成长小说（部分基于他自己的童年时代）是一部充满生命的作品，既有喜剧性又有悲剧性。查尔斯·狄更斯（1812-1970）在他的第一部小说《匹克威克文件》（pickwickpapers）中取得了第一次惊人的成功。在一个异常充实的生活中，他写作、竞选和演讲的范围非常广泛，他参与了维多利亚时代生活的许多关键方面，依次是哄骗、感动和恼人。他完成了十四部长篇小说和一卷又一卷的新闻工作。在他所有的作品中，他称大卫·科波菲尔为“他最喜欢的孩子”。杰里米·坦普林是曼彻斯特大学的文学教授。