David Copperfield (Annotated Edition)

Author: [British] Charles Dickens
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: David Copperfield is an important work by the 19th-century British critical realist writer Charles Dickens, written between 1848 and 1850. In this autobiographical novel, Dickens uses "David's own history and experience" to reflect and summarize his life path from certain aspects, showcasing his attitude toward life and moral ideals. The vivid and rich life scenes depicted in the work exhibit distinct and profound characteristics of the era. David Copperfield tells the story of a petty-bourgeois intellectual seeking a way in capitalist society. Orphaned Copperfield endures many hardships and suffers the bitterness of life, but with the help of kind-hearted people, he achieves success in his career and happiness in his family through relentless struggle.