David Copperfield, English edition
Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2012 |
Seiten | 1008 |
Format | 19,6 cm |
B-format | |
Gewicht | 690 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | The Penguin English Library |
ISBN-10 | 0141199164 |
EAN | 9780141199160 |
Bestell-Nr | 14119916EA |
Born to a mother already six months widowed, the young David Copperfield suffers at the hands of a tyrannical stepfather and at the hard graft of the factory floor. But his boyhood wanderings take him from Suffolk and London to Dover and beyond - and through the lives of a host of colourful characters.
Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw
Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, saviours, eccentrics and grotesques, including the wicked Mr Murdstone, stout-hearted Peggotty, formidable Betsey Trotwood, impecunious Micawber and odious Uriah Heep.
Dickens's great Bildungsroman (based, in part, on his own boyhood, and which he described as a 'favourite child') is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic.