![]() David Copperfield is Dickens at his most aware of the act of writing.īut it’s much more than David’s story. ![]() ![]() He records and reflects he makes notes and what we might called in-text annotations. He is writing an account of his life, long after the events have passed. Its official title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery. And it speaks to the nobility and the depravity of the human condition. It tells a story of the working and middle classes in the first half of 19th century England. It captures the manners and foibles of the time, as only Dickens could do. It’s filled with memorable characters with wonderful and distinctive names. ![]() What a crackerjack story it is! It’s about good and evil, kindness and venality, family real and by circumstance, avarice, power, and perhaps most of all, love. ![]()
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