David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - 1984 Penguin Books Paperback

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as: • Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover• Creases, marks, or small tears on pages or dust jacket• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name/notes inside Cover art: The drawing of Dickens inside the front cover is by George Cruikshank (Victoria & Albert Museum) Blurb: “EDITED BY TREVOR BLOUNT David Copperfield (1849-50) was Dickens's 'favourite child' and the book in which he revealed most of himself and particularly of his early life. But, as Trevor Blount writes in his introduction, Dickens 'did more than transliterate autobiography. He fashioned himself anew in what he wrote, and in so doing achieved simultaneously the sanity and distinction of art, and the warmth and quickness of joyous life.' Above all in this novel he created some of his most famous characters - Micawber, Uriah Heep, Steerforth - creatures whom, in Chesterton's words, 'we would not forget if we could, creatures whom we could not forget if we would, creatures who are more actual than the man who made them'. The cover shows a detail from 'Yarmouth Jetty' by E. R. Smythe (H. R. Ryman's Collection, by courtesy of Oscar and Peter Johnson Ltd)