Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Author: Charles DickensThe Childhood of David Copperfield
Author: Charles DickensThe Childhood of David Copperfield
Author: Charles DickensDavid Copperfield's History of Magic
Author: David CopperfieldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982112913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield profiles some of the world's most groundbreaking magicians. From the sixteenth-century magistrate who wrote an early book on conjuring, to the roaring twenties and the man who fooled Houdini, to the woman who levitated, vanished, and caught bullets in her bare hands, David Copperfield's History of Magic takes you on a wild journey through the remarkable feats of some of the greatest magicians in history. The result is a sweeping tale that reveals how these astonishing performers were outsiders who used magic to escape class, challenge conventions, transform popular culture, explore the innermost workings of the human mind, and inspire scientific discovery. Their incredible stories are complemented by more than 100 never-before-seen photographs of artifacts from Copperfield's exclusive Museum of Magic, including a sixteenth-century manual on sleight-of-hand; Houdini's straitjackets, handcuffs, and water torture chamber; Dante's famous sawing-in-half apparatus; Alexander's high-tech turban that allowed him to read people's minds; and even some coins that may have magically passed through the hands of Abraham Lincoln. By the end of the book, you'll be sure to share Copperfield's passion for the power of magic. --
The Hero as Man of Letters
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An Analysis of Childhood and Child Labour in Charles Dickens’ Works
Author: Selina SchusterPublisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
ISBN: 3954897229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The Industrial Revolution was a time of enormous change for the British society. Science and technology developed rapidly and brought wealth and improvement into many sectors of life; inventions like the steam engine, power looms, the spinning jenny or the expansion of the road and rail network made life easier. But on the other hand it was also the time of great misery, exploitation and tremendous class differences between a very thin and very wealthy upper-class, a rising middle-class and a very broad and to a great extent extremely impoverished working-class. But how was it like being a working-class child in Victorian England? To answer this question this work will take a close look at two of the most famous contemporary novels dealing with the depiction of children: Charles Dickens’ ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Oliver Twist’.
David Copperfield
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN: 9780553210514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way. Jeremy Tambling's provocative Introduction reveals subtle themes relevant today in Dickens' favorite work
The Child's Dickens
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Childhood of David Copperfield
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330884676
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Excerpt from The Childhood of David Copperfield: The Early Chapters of the Author's Novel, With an Introduction and Notes One may arrange a part of Dickens's work for a special kind of readers with a very good conscience, for Dickens himself set an example in the arrangements he made for his own public readings. There is, however, not much arrangement made here of the part of David Copperfield presented, beyond the omission of chapters I. and IV. A few other passages have been omitted, usually because they have such reference to later parts of the story as would make them puzzling to one who was only reading the beginning. In the Introduction I have not presented any helps to study, but have contented myself with doing something to give the reading of the story a little more meaning. It is possible that the third part of the Introduction may be somewhat advanced for the pupils into whose hands this book may come. It is meant more especially for teachers, and will, perhaps, give them some help in the comments they may make on the readings in class. But even if it is advanced for some pupils it will do them no harm to read it It is rarely harmful to try to understand something written for people a little older than oneself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Real David Copperfield
Author: Robert GravesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This book looks at Robert Graves' rewritten take on Charles Dickens' classic.