It is an argument that this loss of prestige is unwarranted, impermanent, even benighted, and it is a rebuttal of the notion that ideologues can’t make great novelists, or that novels are no longer plausible vehicles for social change.īefore we consider those questions: the plot. Exhuming him is a way for her to make a claim of inheritance explicit at a time when teeming, boisterous, activist novels are unfashionable. Like Dickens, she is unblushingly political and works on a sprawling scale, animating her pages with the presence of seemingly every creeping thing that has ever crept upon the earth. Kingsolver’s resurrection of Dickens’s most sentimental (though cherished by many, including me) novel might seem a bit strange - as if Harry Styles had released a song-for-song remake of the original cast recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.”īut then, from another angle: Of course Barbara Kingsolver would retell Dickens. Production notes: This ebook of David Copperfield was published by Global Grey in 2018.In “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver offers a close retelling of Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield,” which is either a baffling choice or an ingenious maneuver from a novelist who has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected for Oprah’s Book Club and regularly - inevitably, even - appears on the best-seller list of this newspaper, all while reaping a surprising quantity of stinging pans from critics. This book has 950 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of his works. Like most of his works, it originally appeared in serial form during the two preceding years. The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity.
Its full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account).
David Copperfield Charles DickensĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats.ĭavid Copperfield is the common name of the eighth novel by Charles Dickens.
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