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Geoffrey Howard
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Length
33 hours 46 minutes
Language
English
David Copperfieldis the timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to live and love in a cutthroat, indifferent adult world. It firmly embraces all the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood.
Of all Charles Dickens' novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time. Certainly Copperfield's experiencesāhis early rejection, child labor in a warehouse, experience as a journalist, and final success as a novelistāare strikingly similar to Dickens' own. It is little wonder that Dickens said of it, "Of all my books I like this the bestā¦Like many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name isDavid Copperfield."
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was one of the most prolific authors of the nineteenth century. In his many short stories, plays, novellas, and novels, he created some of literature's most memorable characters.
Geoffrey Howard (a.k.a. Ralph Cosham) (1936ā2014) was a British journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and stage actor. He performed in more than one hundred professional theatrical roles. His audiobook narrations were named āAudio Best of the Yearā by Publishers Weekly, and he won seven AudioFile Earphones Awards, and in 2013 he won the coveted Audie Award for Best Mystery Narration for his reading of Louise Pennyās The Beautiful Mystery.
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“The most perfect of all the Dickens novels.”
āDavid CopperfieldĀ is DickensāsĀ Hamlet...I canāt remember being so moved by one of his novels...What putsĀ David CopperfieldĀ right up there withĀ Bleak HouseĀ andĀ Great Expectations, however, is its sweet nature, and its surprising modernity...CompletingĀ David CopperfieldĀ has left me feeling bereft.ā
āWhat a pleasure to have the opportunity of praising a work so sound, a work so rich in merit, asĀ David Copperfield!ā¦Of the contemporary rubbish which is shot so plentifully all around us, we can, indeed, hardly read too little.Ā Ā But to contemporary work so good asĀ David Copperfield, we are in danger of perhaps not paying respect enough.ā
āAccording to the general voice of the critics, Copperfield is one of the best of Mr. Dickensās stories, written with decidedly more care and effort than its immediate processors, as if the author had determined to show the captious public that his genius was fine and fresh as ever.ā
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