Though naturally, he wouldn’t admit to it.ĭavid Copperfield, like Jane Eyre, gains its particular power from starting in childhood, before the character is yet fully formed, and in the first person, which allows the central figure to tell their own story, and so to comment on their own development as they grow. By the time of that third edition, first jealousy, then sheer writerly curiosity, would surely have driven him to take a look. Impossible to believe that a novelist of Dickens’ standing, highly competitive about his own status, could simply have ignored one of the extraordinary fictional successes of his age.
The serial publication of his novel David Copperfield began in May 1849, only 18 months after the sensational first publication of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, a bare year after its third edition in April 1848. The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to be written as such a narration.The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity.David's father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother remarries but David and his step-father don’t get on and he is sent to boarding school.As Divid settles into life we are taken along with him and meet a dazzling array of characters,some of whom we will never forget and some of whom we won't want to remember! (Introduction by Wikipedia & T.Hynes)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit Copperfield was Charles Dickens’ ‘favourite child’: Sally Minogue considers the complications of a deeply autobiographical novel.Īs I watched the film of David Copperfield last week, entranced, there was still a bit of my critical mind working and it was thinking – Dickens got this idea from Jane Eyre! Charles Dickens claimed that he had not read Jane Eyre, and that he ‘never would’.
LibriVox recording of David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens.
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