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David Copperfield

Writer's picture: Kathy MillerKathy Miller

Charles Dickens, 1850

Date read: 4/6/24


This is a long novel. In paperback form it is almost 900 pages. It follows the protagonist literally from birth until middle age.


I really enjoyed it for the most part. It is very Victorian. A woman ruins her reputation and has to move to the Australian colonies because she had sex. Another woman wastes away and dies in her early 20s from an unnamed illness.


This novel contains me and Mr Miller's favorite quote:


‘My other piece of advice, Copperfield,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and - and in short you are for ever floored. As I am!"


Overall, it was very very good. I read Demon Copperhead first and I wish I hadn't.


Length: ages on kindle

Classic: YES

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