The Personal History of David Copperfield

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It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody cares for Dickens heroines, least of all for Dora, but take it all in al, l this book is enjoyed by young people more than any other of the great novelist. After having read this you will wish to read Nicholas Nickleby for its mingling of pathos and humor, Martin Chuzzlewit for its pictures of American life as seen through English eyes, and Pickwick Papers for its crude but boisterous humor.

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People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870),  Maria Sarah Beadnell Winter (1811 or 12-1886)

Places: England,  Great Britain,  Jin dai,  London,  London (England),  ying guo

Times: 19th century,  Yingguo,  Victoria, 1837-1901,  jin dai