David Copperfield (version 3)
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99
1850
English
- Preface
- I am Born
- I Observe
- I Have a Change
- I Fall Into Disgrace
- I am Sent Away
- I Enlarge my Circle of Aquaintance
- My First Half at Salem house
- My Holidays Especially one Happy Aternoon
- I Have a Memorable Birthday
- I Become Neglected, and am Provided For
- I Begin Life on my own Account and Don't Like it
- Liking Life on my own Account no Better I Form a Great Resolution
- The Sequel of my Resolution
- My Aunt Makes up her Mind about Me
- I Make Another Beginning
- I Am a New Boy in More Senses than One
- Somebody Turns Up
- A Retrospect
- I Look about Me and Make a Discovery
- Steerforth's Home
- Little Em'ly
- Some Old Scenes, and Some New People
- I Corroborate Mr. Dick, and Choose a Profession
- My First Dissipation
- Good and Bad Angels
- I Fall into Captivity
- Tommy Traddles
- Mister Micawber's Gauntlet
- I Visit Steerforth at His Home, Again
- A Loss
- A Greater Loss
- The Beginning of a Long Journey
- Blissful
- My Aunt Astonishes Me
- Depression
- Enthusiasm
- A Little Cold Water
- A Dissolution of Partnership
- Wickfield and Heep
- The Wanderer
- Dora's Aunts
- Mischief
- Another Retrospect
- Our Housekeeping
- Mr. Dick Fulfills My Aunt's Predictions
- Intelligence
- Martha
- Domestic
- I Am Involved in Mystery
- Mr. Peggoty's Dream Comes True
- The Beginning of a Longer Journey
- I Assist at an Explosion
- Another Retrospect
- Mister Micawber's Transactions
- The Tempest
- The New Wound, and the Old
- The Emigrants
- Absence
- Return
- Agnes
- I Am Shown Two Interesting Penitents
- A Light Shines on My Way
- A Visitor
- A Last Retrospect
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of character types) from all members of society. Here we have, for example, the virtuous, but relatively poor, Mr. Peggotty beside the grasping and greedy and vengeful and more middle-class Heep, but also beside Julia Mills whose only desire is also for money, which she possesses to excess (alluding to the capitalistic aggrandizement of European exploitation of foreign nations). And David Copperfield, like other of Dickens' works, emphasizes thematically that love and sacrifice are better than greed and arrogance. But this novel is more autobiographical than his others (obviously the title is an indication, Charles Dickens (C D) becomes David Copperfield (D C), and, of course, David becomes a famous writer, in fact, known worldwide, like Charles Dickens. Finally, it should be mentioned that David Copperfield probably more than in any of his other novels emphasizes the power and joy of family, and part of that is his exposure as evil all that and those that would subvert it.- Summary by Jim Locke
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