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David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Start date: October 1, 2019

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Jan 14, 2014 Chrissie rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: hf, classics, audible-us, great-britain, 2014-read, victorian, bio, love

Peter Batchelor narrates my audiobook! There are at least ten or twelve characters that return over and over again. He narrates each of them with a different voice so you can hear who is speaking. However in places the recording isn't the best; here the words were difficult to decipher.

Dickens is disappointing AGAIN. I have recently tried Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. I will give this a fair try, all through to the end, but I believe it will be my last Dickens.

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Nov 01, 2024 Jane rated it it was amazing

Reread Lost count of number of times I have read this and always something new

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Feb 04, 2018 Martha rated it liked it · review of another edition

I loved parts of it, but the last 300 pages were tedious. I'm glad I finished it! ...more

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Mar 20, 2008 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: british-literature, fiction-19th-century, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, victorians

This is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850. ...more

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