Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that
draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous
hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness,
heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and
villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham
wrote: andquot; There were never such people as the Micawbers,
Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah
Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's
exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them.andquot;
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new
Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to
new explanatory notes.
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