David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"David Copperfield" charts a little boy's wretched childhood and his

progress to a successful novelist and his finding true love along the

way. The author made a romantic effort to be realistic and thus

captured the essence of all parts of human life in the pages of this

book. David Copperfield is the main character of the novel, but he is

not the hero of the novel.

David, a fatherless child born in a little village in Victorian

England is deeply attached to his mother and his nurse Peggotty. His

world turns upside down when his mother marries a man by the name of

Murdstone. The pain that his stepfather and his "murdering woman of a

sister" inflict upon David leads to his untimely loss of innocence.

David is sent to "Salem House" a school where he is forced to live

under the brutal regime of Mr. Creakle. Soon he loses his beloved

mother and is "provided for" by his stepfather to work as a labourer

at a warehouse in London. David feels his "hopes of growing up to be a

learned and distinguished man crushed" in his bosom. Disguste...

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