David Copperfield (stage version)

by Charles Dickens (Author), Alastair Cording (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $16.77

  This work is one of Dickens' best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly yet faithfully dramatised for a cast of ten. Here are all Dickens' marvellous creations, Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth, Betsey Trotwood and all. Weaving through the colourful maze of the storyline is David's hopeless infatuation with Emily - and eventual salvation in the arms of the long-suffering Agnes. Alastair Cording's stage adaptation skilfully concentrates on the essentials of the story while maintaining the colour, humour and drama of the book. Most notable is its fluidity, with each scene flowing into the next without the need for cumbersome scene changes - or indeed very much scenery.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $14.02

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $16.03

• New

  Hardcover
  1991

  $19.77

  In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes his life experience into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired. Few readers can fail to be touched by David's fate, and fewer still to be delighted by his story. The cruel Murdstone, the feckless Micawber, the unctuous and sinister Uriah Heep, and David Copperfield himself, into whose portrait Dickens puts so much of his own early life, form a central part of our literary legacy. This edition reprints the original Everyman preface by G K Chesterton and includes thirty-nine illustrations by Phiz.