A more or less self-contained excerpt from the novel, in a creative
abridgement done by Dickens for one of his public readings (Anthea
Bell's afterword provides notes about these performances and the
texts Dickens prepared for them). The fragile pen-and-ink drawings
have been flooded with watercolor and given a smudged, atmospheric
look. Marks (The Fisherman and His Wife, 1991, etc.) zeroes in on
the basic dramatic premise of each scene - wet and dark exteriors,
warm and dry interiors, characters engaged in lively conversation
or sending each other meaningful looks. Marks's storytelling skills
are further demonstrated by the different sizes of the pictures,
their distribution, and layout - they evocatively conjure this
hearty tale, and will send readers off to the original. (Kirkus
Reviews)
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them."
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.
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