{"product_id":"david-copperfield-introduction-by-michael-slater-hardcover","title":"David Copperfield: Introduction by Michael Slater - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCharles Dickens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Slater\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventure, David meets an array of eccentric characters and learns hard lessons about the world before he finally discovers true happiness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles Dickens's most celebrated novel and the author's own favorite, \u003ci\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003c\/i\u003e is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes his life experience into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew readers can fail to be touched by David's fate, and fewer still to be delighted by his story. The cruel Murdstone, the feckless Micawber, the unctuous and sinister Uriah Heep, and David Copperfield himself, into whose portrait Dickens puts so much of his own early life, form a central part of our literary legacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition reprints the original Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton and includes thirty-nine illustrations by Phiz.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens was born in a little house in Landport, Portsea, England, on February 7, 1812. The second of eight children, he grew up in a family frequently beset by financial insecurity. At age eleven, Dickens was taken out of school and sent to work in London backing warehouse, where his job was to paste labels on bottles for six shillings a week. His father John Dickens, was a warmhearted but improvident man. When he was condemned the Marshela Prison for unpaid debts, he unwisely agreed that Charles should stay in lodgings and continue working while the rest of the family joined him in jail. This three-month separation caused Charles much pain; his experiences as a child alone in a huge city-cold, isolated with barely enough to eat-haunted him for the rest of his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the family fortunes improved, Charles went back to school, after which he became an office boy, a freelance reporter and finally an author. With \u003cb\u003ePickwick Papers \u003c\/b\u003e(1836-7) he achieved immediate fame; in a few years he was easily the post popular and respected writer of his time. It has been estimated that one out of every ten persons in Victorian England was a Dickens reader. \u003cb\u003eOliver Twist \u003c\/b\u003e(1837), \u003ci\u003eNicholas Nickleby \u003c\/i\u003e(1838-9) and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Curiosity Shop \u003c\/i\u003e(1840-41) were huge successes. \u003ci\u003eMartin Chuzzlewit \u003c\/i\u003e(1843-4) was less so, but Dickens followed it with his unforgettable, \u003cb\u003eA Christmas Carol\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(1843), \u003cb\u003eBleak House\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(1852-3), \u003cb\u003eHard Times \u003c\/b\u003e(1854) and\u003ci\u003e Little Dorrit \u003c\/i\u003e(1855-7)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ereveal his deepening concern for the injustices of British Society. \u003cb\u003e A Tale of Two Cities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(1859), \u003cb\u003eGreat Expectations \u003c\/b\u003e(1860-1) and \u003ci\u003eOur Mutual Friend \u003c\/i\u003e(1864-5) complete his major works. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDickens's marriage to Catherine Hoggarth produced ten children but ended in separation in 1858. In that year he began a series of exhausting public readings; his health gradually declined. After putting in a full day's work at his home at Gads Hill, Kent on June 8, 1870, Dickens suffered a stroke, and he died the following day.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1016\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.78 x 8.33 x 5.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756909953312,"sku":"9780679405719","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2223ea48c90450abf5d4d7495a362a8d.webp?v=1780089023","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/david-copperfield-introduction-by-michael-slater-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}