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“‘I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.’ So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his ‘ favorite child’. Through his hero, Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero’s sexual and emotional drives, and Mr. Micawber, a portrait of Dickens’s own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia, and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens’s most quoted and best-loved novel.”

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