David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

[Jean]

Week 11 Rory Gilmore Challenge

Thank you Charles Dickens for this gift of a story handed down over the centuries. The cast of characters is unforgettable, and reassure us that people are people the world around. I'll remember them forever.

[Sophie]

I remember when I was a child watching and re-watching a cartoon where the characters where cats, but I don't really remember much about the story! I'm planning on discovering Dickens this year, maybe I'll get to this one later.

[Jody]

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.

In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

I'm reading this one for AtY 2019, Week 18 (A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements). I do like Dickens quite a bit, and I'm very much looking forward to his "favourite child"!

[Jody]

This took me a while, but I finished this yesterday. It's not my favourite Dickens, but it's still wonderfully written & hilarious.