David Copperfield

by Dickens, Charles

• ISBN13: 9781848376120
• ISBN10: 184837612X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Book Sales

Summary

When 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. "The most perfect of all the Dickens novels." -Virginia Woolf "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
I am born	p. 13
I observe	p. 23
I have a change	p. 35
I fall into disgrace	p. 49
I am sent away from home	p. 65
I enlarge my circle of acquaintance	p. 80
My "first half" at Salem House	p. 86
My holidays. Especially one happy afternoon	p. 102
I have a memorable birthday	p. 115
I become neglected, and am provided for	p. 125
I begin life on my own account, and don't like it	p. 142
Liking life on my own account no better, I form a great resolution	p. 155
The sequel of my resolution	p. 163
My aunt makes up her mind about me	p. 181
I make another beginning	p. 194
I am a new boy in more senses than one	p. 202
Somebody turns up	p. 220
A retrospect	p. 236
I look about me, and make a discovery	p. 242
Steerforth's home	p. 256
Little Em'ly	p. 264
Some old scenes, and some new people	p. 281
I corroborate Mr. Dick, and choose a profession	p. 300
My first dissipation	p. 313
Good and bad angels	p. 320
I fall into captivity	p. 337
Tommy Traddles	p. 351
Mr. Micawber's gauntlet	p. 359
I visit Steerforth at his home again	p. 376
A loss	p. 383
A greater loss	p. 390
The beginning of a long journey	p. 398
Blissful	p. 414
My aunt astonishes me	p. 428
Depression	p. 436
Enthusiasm	p. 453
A little cold water	p. 469
A dissolution of partnership	p. 476
Wickfield and Heep	p. 490
The wanderer	p. 506
Dora's aunts	p. 514
Mischief	p. 528
Another retrospect	p. 545
Our housekeeping	p. 553
Mr. Dick fulfils my aunt's prediction	p. 566
Intelligence	p. 579
Martha	p. 591
Domestic	p. 600
I am involved in mystery	p. 610
Mr. Peggotty's dream comes true	p. 621
The beginning of a longer journey	p. 630
I assist at an explosion	p. 645
Another retrospect	p. 666
Mr. Micawber's transactions	p. 671
Tempest	p. 684
The new wound, and the old	p. 694
The emigrants	p. 699
Absence	p. 708
Return	p. 714
Agnes	p. 728
I am shown two interesting penitents	p. 736
A light shines on my way	p. 747
A visitor	p. 755
A last retrospect	p. 762
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