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	David Copperfield (novel) Summary
		Drawing his narrative themes from the sensation novel and the popular stage, Charles Dickens heavily freighted most of his plots with mystery, crime, and suspense.
		David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to be published on any account) is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1850.
		Debates the significance of serialization in Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield.
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	David Copperfield
		In the novel Dickens' painful memories of being taken from school to work at Warren's Blacking Factory while his father is in prison for debt are told through David's account of Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse.
		When David is asked by Mrs Micawber to take some of their treasured possessions to the pawn shop to help meet their obligations, Dickens is recalling painful memories of having to pawn off the very books he read and treasured as a child to ease his family's financial woes.
		David is miserable at Murdstone and Grinby's and decides to run away to Dover to throw himself on the mercy of his aunt, Betsy Trotwood.
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	David Copperfield (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels.
		David is born in the England of the 1810's.
		David's aunt renames him Trotwood Copperfield, soon shortened to "Trot", and for the rest of the novel he is called by either name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Copperfield_(novel) (2426 words)

	NovelGuide: David Copperfield: Novel Summary: Chapters XI-XIV (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Previously, David was forced into the role of a parent of sorts to his childish mother, and subsequently into the role of a victim of the cruel Murdstones and Mr.
		David’s new freedom is due in part to Betsey’s assumption of the protective role of parent, which comes as a great relief to the reader after the dismal failure of his mother and the Murdstones in this role.
		The weak and cruel guardianship of (respectively) Clara Copperfield and the Murdstones is superseded by the strong and responsible guardianship of Betsey and the benevolence of Mr.
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	ReadingGroupGuides.com - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
		David Copperfield's time at Murdstone and Grinby's warehouse, his schooling at Salem House, and his relationship with Dora all have their bases in Dickens's own life.
		Given the intimate connection between the lives of Copperfield and his author, it is little wonder that Dickens considered this book his "favourite child." And it is little wonder, given its vast array of memorable characters and its brilliant treatment of the quest for self-knowledge, that Copperfield is Dickens's best loved and most quoted novel.
		From the caul with which Copperfield is born (believed to protect one from drowning) to the shipwreck scene at the end, David Copperfield contains countless allusions to and images of the sea.
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	David Copperfield Study Guide
		Copperfield, who had been orphaned as a child, met her late husband while she was working as a nursery governess in the home of a house he used to visit.
		David is in thrall of Steerforth, although it is clear that the latter is the type of boy who knows how to use his charms to manipulate people.
		Copperfield was a delicate creature whose health declined after Murdstone married her and subjected her to his rigid ways.
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	David Copperfield
		David Copperfield debuts on TNT on Dec. 10 (Part I) and Dec. 11 (Part II) at 8 p.m.
		Eventually, Copperfield grows up with no apparent psychic damage (nowadays, he'd still be in therapy) but a decided inability to actually do anything.
		You could certainly do far worse if you're looking for a British novel of the month TV movie fix, but for this David Copperfield, about the only way you can do better is to rent the 1935 version on video.
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	NovelGuide: David Copperfield: Novel Summary: Chapters I-III
		David, being a very young child, has no idea that “Brooks of Sheffield?is an invented name to hide the fact that the men are talking about him.
		Betsey Trotwood’s question to Clara Copperfield about whether she and her husband, David’s father, were happily married, introduces one of the major themes of the novel: the importance of equality within marriage.
		The fact that David is removed to Yarmouth in order to allow the marriage to go ahead smoothly is also a foreshadowing of how David’s family life will change: he will be excluded from the compact between his mother and her new husband.
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	Mental capital, industrial time, and the professional in David Copperfield Novel: A Forum on Fiction - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The boy "stole Dora's watch," David tells us, "which, like everything else belonging to us, had no particular place of its own; and, converting it into money, spent the produce (he was always a weak-minded boy) in incessantly riding up and down between London and Uxbridge outside the coach" (657-8).
		The Copperfields forfeit their property, while the boy, like the watch's hand traveling equidistant spaces between numerals, covers the same plot of land over and over.
		Critics commenting on the novel's fascination with time have tended to do so within generic or psychologizing terms (focusing on the novel as a bildungsroman or on the status of individual memory), overlooking the text's larger premise regarding what might be called, after Fredric Jameson, "the new rhythms of measurable time" (Political 152).
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	David Copperfield, Constant Reader Discussion
		Topic: David Copperfield (25 of 47), Read 64 times Conf: CLASSICS CORNER From: R Bavetta (rbavetta@prodigy.net) Date: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:24 PM Dale, I think a caul is a bit of the amniotic sac, still clinging to the baby, and it was considered to be good luck.
		It's a whale of a novel, isn't it?
		Topic: David Copperfield by Dickens (160 of 166), Read 32 times Conf: CLASSICS CORNER From: Beej Connor (connorva@mindspring.com) Date: Saturday, March 10, 2001 09:16 AM It seems the three most interesting female characters, at least to me, were the ones who didn't need a man to support their Victorian 'fluff'n-nutter'...Aunt Betsey, Miss Mowcher and Martha.
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	David Copperfield
		The novel transmutes the literal life, but the ruefulness is born of authentic hardscrabble memories.
		The splendid new PBS Masterpiece Theatre presentation of David Copperfield (coproduced by BBC America and WGBH Boston) is remarkably faithful to the sublime melancholy that pervades the story.
		David Copperfield is not meant to be an exceptional child.
	www.culturevulture.net /Television/DavidCopperfield.htm (1225 words)

	Amazon.ca: David Copperfield: DVD: George Cukor,Elizabeth Allan,Lionel Barrymore,Freddie Bartholomew,Harry ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This 1935 adaptation of David Copperfield has endeared itself to generations of movie audiences in spite of artistic and technical flaws reflecting the state of the movie art in filmdom's infancy.
		David is a sweet, unassuming boy who loves his doting mother to the point that the audience early can guess that his happiness is soon to be blighted by nasty adults, the most insidious of whom is Mr.
		In many of Dickens' novels, he portrays women as falling into one of two categories: the sweet but essentially helpless women who are no more able to control their lives than a young David is able to control his.
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	Charles Dickens Gad's Hill Place - David Copperfield
		David's love for Dora Spenlow is modeled after Dickens's youthful fascination for Maria Beadnell.
		David's pretty young mother, was inspired by Dickens's mother, who attended a ball on the very night she gave birth to her son Charles.
		Perhaps also the death of David's mother represented the change Dickens felt toward his mother when she was eager for him to work at Warren's Blacking Factory.
	www.perryweb.com /Dickens/work_copper.shtml (436 words)

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		David Copperfield (born September 16, 1956 as David Seth Kotkin) is a renowned magician and illusionist best known for his combination of spectacular illusions with storytelling.
		David Copperfield was born in Metuchen, New Jersey, to Jewish immigrants from Russia.
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	David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		In addition to these memorable characters, I think all its readers will agree that “David Copperfield” is a complete work in every sense and I’m sure many of them will count it among their favourites.
		We have this AR in our school and one of the books are david copperfield and i read it.
		The David Copperfield´s life isn´t a silver highway with grey tonalities, but flaming way´s travelling between splendors and obscurities, between ligth and shadows.
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	David Copperfield
		David Copperfield that aired a scant nine months ago on PBS Masterpiece Theatre, this latest version is visually impressive and captures a fair measure of the novel’s Dickensian spirit.
		The novel, it should be remembered, is narrated by Copperfield in his late-twenties, wise beyond his years and brimming with dark emotions and heartbreak.
		David Copperfield is admirably populated with a competent British cast.
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	SparkNotes: David Copperfield: Context
		David also becomes first a law clerk, then a reporter, and finally a successful novelist.
		In later years, Dickens called David Copperfield his “favourite child,” and many critics consider the novel to be one of his best depictions of childhood.
		David Copperfield is set in early Victorian England against a backdrop of great social change.
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	Variety.com - Reviews - David Copperfield
		But instead of being passive and wistful, Havergal's David is an active and engaging narrator, played with intelligence and charm by Mark Shanahan.
		David P. Gordon creates a versatile set, an extension of the Playhouse's barnlike interior, decorated with the basic symbols of David's far-flung life: a fisherman's net, a theater curtain, a chandelier, a street lamp.
		Though far from the epic sweep of "Nickleby," Havergal's "David Copperfield" is still a theatrical pleasure.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117929058?categoryid=1265 (749 words)

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		David Copperfield - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		David Copperfield, novel by Charles Dickens, published as a 19-part monthly serial from May 1849 to November 1850.
		David Copperfield is one of Charles Dickens's best-known novels, featuring the distinct blend of drama, satire, and emotion (all within a...
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		David Copperfield (born September 16, 1956) is a renowned American magician and illusionist best known for his combination of spectacular illusions and storytelling.
		David Copperfield's most famous feats include making the Statue of Liberty disappear, flying, levitating over the Grand Canyon and walking through the Great Wall of China.
		David Copperfield makes audience members disapear, walks through solid steel and even toys with a poison scorpion.
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	BookAngles - David Copperfield
		Wickfield with whom David lived when he was in school, brings ruin to his employer, David's aunt, and Mr.
		Family Relationships: David is initially attracted to pretty Dora, but finds, after marriage, that she is rather silly and empty-headed and that they are not truly partners in life.
		Romance: David falls in love with Dora, daughter of a lawyer to whom he is apprenticed, and begins courting her, although her father disapproves.
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	Blundeston - David Copperfield
		Blundeston is famous for being the birthplace of 'David Copperfield', in the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens.
		It is also apparent from the novel that he was familiar with some local landmarks such as the view of the church and the yew trees from the Rookery and the Plough Inn.
		In the novel, David spends his early life in the Rookery, the large house in the centre of the picture below which was taken from the top of the church tower,
	www.blundeston.org.uk /copperfield.html (318 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| David Copperfield \| Charles Dickens
		The story proved to be an enormous success with the general public, was dramatized and represented the first of many Christmas stories he would write over the years.
		His wish to be buried "in the small graveyard under Rochester Castle wall" and "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner" went unheeded, as a tomb in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey was prepared and the entire nation mourned.
		Uriah Heep's career, in some respects, parallels Copperfield's: they both come from impoverished backgrounds; they both establish legal professions; and they both aspire to marry their employer's daughter.
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	The David Copperfield Site - Home of Dickens David Copperfield - The complete on-line & downloadable Ellopos edition, - ...
		Like Robinson Crusoe and Grimm's Fairy Tales and the Waverly Novels, Pickwick and David Copperfield are not books, but stories communicated by word of mouth in those tender years when fact and fiction merge, and thus belong to the memories and myths of life, and not to its esthetic experience.
		David Copperfield and the notion of the hero
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	David Copperfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Copperfield (character), the title character of the Charles Dickens novel
		David Copperfield (1993 animated film), 1993 animated television film made for the NBC network for the Hoilday Season
		David Copperfield (2000 film), 2000 TV film directed by Peter Medak
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	Charles Dickens - Complete works of Charles Dickens, Biography, Quotes
		Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire, during the new industrial age, which created misery for the class of low-paid workers and gave birth to theories of Karl Marx.
		Dickens's novels first appeared in monthly instalments, including OLIVER TWIST (1837-39), which depicts the London underworld and hard years of the foundling Oliver Twist, NICHOLAS NICKELBY (1838-39), a tale of young Nickleby's struggles to seek his fortune, and OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (1840-41).
		Among his later works are DAVID COPPERFIELD (1849-50), where Dickens used his own personal experiences of work in a factory, BLEAK HOUSE (1852-53), A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1859), set in the years of the French Revolution.
	www.dickens-literature.com (811 words)

	David Copperfield
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for David Copperfield to receive a rating.
		Masterpiece Theatre presents this BBC adaptation of Dickens' beloved novel about a plucky young scamp's journey from hellish public schools to a job in a London factory, and into adulthood as a mature writer amongst in mid-nineteenth century industrial London.
		Dickens was famous for creating a supporting cast of memorable characters, and Wilkins Micawber, Copperfield's semi manic depressive father figure (portrayed memorably by W.C. Fields in George Cukor's 1935 film), is one of Dickens's most memorable comic characters.
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