#136 in Classics
David Copperfield
- 798
- Pages
- about 15 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“David Copperfield” lives through its gallery of characters, comic and villainous alike, more than through its hero’s own story. Dickens’s humour is constant, yet at nearly eight hundred pages the novel runs longer than some readers feel it needs to, and some find David’s life uneventful or the mood around the midpoint too bleak. It favours those happy to linger over each scene of a long nineteenth-century life.
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About the book
T adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody cares for Dickens heroines, least of all for Dora, but take it all in al, l this book is enjoyed by young people more than any other of the great novelist. After having read this you will wish to read Nicholas Nickleby for its mingling of pathos and humor, Martin Chuzzlewit for its pictures of American life as seen through English eyes, and Pickwick Papers for its crude but boisterous humor.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 378 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 72% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.9 | 15 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 363 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is David Copperfield?
It has 798 pages — longer than 96% of the ranked books in Classics.
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