Name: David Copperfield
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Author: Charles Dickens

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dickens

Publisher

Alianza Editorial

Year

2020

Pages

1224

Dimensions

18x12.5 cm

ISBN13

9788413620329

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "David Copperfield"

Tal vez porque esté inspirada en no poca medida en experiencias propias. "David Copperfield" era. como confesó el propio Charles Dickens (1812-1870). la novela favorita de entre las suyas. detalle no despreciable tratándose del escritor más grande y popular de la Inglaterra victoriana. Y es que en esta afortunada novela Dickens consiguió como en pocas mezclar las dosis justas de melodrama y comicidad. de crueldad y ternura. a través de una amplia e inolvidable galería de personajes entre los que destacan. aparte del propio David. su bondadosa y vehemente tía Betsey Trotwood. el amable señor Micawber. siempre sin blanca. y el pérfido e inescrupuloso Uriah Heep. Otras obras de Dickens en Alianza Editorial: "Tiempos difíciles". "Grandes esperanzas". "Oliver Twist". "La tienda de antigüedades". "Historia de dos ciudades". "Canción de Navidad" y "El guardavía y otros cuentos de miedo". Traducción de Miguel Ángel Pérez Pérez

Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was born in Portsmouth and was the eldest son of a Royal Navy clerk. At twelve, his father's imprisonment for debt forced him to work in a blacking factory. His education was sporadic: he taught himself shorthand, worked as a clerk in a law office, and eventually became a parliamentary correspondent for the Morning Chronicle.

Coming from a humble family, "good old Charles" did not receive formal education until he was nine, and was heavily criticized by the critics of the time for being too self-taught. His life took an unexpected turn with his father's imprisonment for debts, moving his family to live with him in jail, allowed at that time by British laws. At the age of 12, he was already considered fit to start working in a dye factory. Although his family's situation had improved, his mother insisted he keep working there, inspiring him to write one of his masterpieces, David Copperfield.

His articles, later collected in Scenes from London Life by "Boz" (1836-1837), were very successful, and with the appearance in 1837 of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Dickens became a true publishing phenomenon. Novels such as Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), and Barnaby Rudge (1841) gained enormous popularity, as did some travel chronicles, such as Pictures from Italy (1846). With Dombey and Son (1846-1848) he began his mature period, of which good examples are David Copperfield (1849-1850), his first novel in the first person and his favorite, in which he developed some autobiographical episodes; Bleak House (1852-1853); Little Dorrit (1855-1857), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861), and Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). He died at Gad's Hill, his country house in Higham, in the county of Kent.

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Anonymous User Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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El libro es muy hermoso
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Carlos M Friday, August 09, 2024
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Editorial genial para leer a Dickens, lo compré a buen precio ya que estaba de uso. Comprar de uso esta bien si deseas acercate a una obra a un menor precio. Cumplió mis expectativas.
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