David Copperfield (Modern Library)

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Duswrapper worn and chipped. Some foxing to spine strip. The Childrens Bookshop Professional seller. London, Chapman and Hall, Edition limited to copies for Great Britain and copies for America. Purple half-leather over marbled boards, spines elaborately ornated in gold, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Light wear to leather along the spines and corner tips, a few small smudges to some of the pages.

A very good set. Parigi Books Professional seller. The Franklin Library, Illustrated by Degen, Paul. This is a beautifully bound special edition of David Copperfield. With burgundy leatherette-covered boards, they are decorated in gilt. The spine is also decorated and has four raised bands. This volume is the first in which Paul Degen's paintings for David Copperfield have been reproduced. The illustrations are in full color and the page edges are gilt. Endpapers have a decoration in burgundy. Included in the front is a laid in, unused bookplate.

New with no dust jacket. Nans Book Shop Professional seller. DVD, durata ' in bn. Libreria Chiari Professional seller. La Biblioteca dei Ragazzi cm. Firenze, Vallecchi, , 8vo leg. Libreria Naturalistica snc Professional seller. Reeks De Onsterfelijken, Ingenaaid, linnen band, pp.

Hardcover, 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, 8vo. Book, Light edge wear, small mark inside front cover, school stamp on flyleaf, ink note on rear endpaper. The classic Dickens work, condensed, pages.

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UHR Books Professional seller. Gutenberg Verlag, Hamburg o. Antiquariat Petri Professional seller. Milano, Carroccio, , 8vo leg. The edges of the book is slightly bumped.

Prentice Hall Library : David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Hardcover)

Top Notch Books Professional seller. Adaptation de Jacques Marcineau. Portrait en noir et blanc, de l'auteur dans le texte. Downton Abbey, although a favorite, it is very detailed and realistic for the rich, with little to no realistic reflection of the details of poverty other than what's shown of the downstairs workers. Gillian is good but has the same 3 looks used over and over. I get she's lived a tortured life and has made decisions, i.

The other characters are far more interesting only because they've fleshed out their characters. Sadly I was unaware of the history and although I knew it was Season 1 in , I believed there was a Season 2. So, I'd not realized when it's done, it's done. It should really be presented as a Mini-series.

I won't ruin it for those who haven't seen it, so I'll only say I really liked watching however I thought the last minutes could have been done better. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase.

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An important literary work that's also a joy to read. Browne did the illustrations for 10 of Dickens' novels. The images in the Kindle version are low-resolution scans of the original images or perhaps scans of other scans. On the Kindle Paperwhite, I don't think the images look very good, and some detail is hard to make out on some of the images.

On the 10" iPad running the Kindle app, the images are much easier to see, both in their original size and when blown up to take up almost the full screen. However, the low-resolution images don't look very crisp on the high-resolution iPad display. Note that you can see all the images online for free. I'll put a link in the first comment.

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However, the site I link to doesn't tell you where each image belongs in the book, which chapter it goes with. The images are of historic significance, each one adds to the story the artist was working with Dickens , and I enjoy them a lot. Just set your expectations low if you're getting it for your Paperwhite. By Kimber on August 7, Oh, the beauty and the agony tears at me as I think about this stunning story. The characters are vivid and the settings so well written that I was transported to the graveyard alongside young Pip and his convict, fear streaking through me as it was for that small boy torn by a near-impossible decision.

I can feel the fire on my skin and taste hot metal on the back of my tongue. The love, the heartbreak and the lessons still hold true today. Some choices, once made, can leave long-reaching scars on the hearts of those we never knew we touched. A good deed can ripple through time to places never imagined. The consequences of our actions must be accounted for, and there will always be outcomes we could never have anticipated. The deliciously-satisfying prose is the whipped cream on the proverbial sundae that is Dickens.

The plot and subplots and sub-subplots are astounding! The way he can weave this tangled web yet keep the interest of the reader while giving nothing away until the perfect moment … and BAM! He has you, and you sigh with the perfection of it all. By Charles Vekert on August 30, Some chapters really have nothing to do with the story about Nickolas and his family; the coincidences are really implausible, and sometimes it seems that Dickens can not really figure out what to do.

One bad guy is killed in a duel that has nothing to do with the plot. At least he did not have a piano fall on him. But for all that, Dickens is one of the world's great story-tellers and you will find yourself wanting to know what is going to happen to Nicholas and his family as they go through some really bad years of their lives. They all live happily ever after. Also, you will learn a lot about London in the early to middle 19th century.

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It is entertaining and well worth reading. I avoided reading books by Charles Dickens because I thought the old style of English would be too tough to work through and keep my interest. I waited 64 years before I figured this out. Maybe I needed to wait until this before I could appreciate his work. It is basically a story of a young orphan boy, named Pip, coming of age in the mid- 19th century.

It is a life full of characters both good, bad and in between. The main thrust though is how theses characters all affect young Pip's beliefs; fears and As he grows he finds that many are not what he originally thought them to be. However, they are what they are. The story is about how Pip learns to deal with them and life's twist and turns. It is really a good book. I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.

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It is tough to read in a few spots but you can still get the context and keep the story moving along. I highly recommend this book, but you will have to decide if you are old enough to appreciate it. Just don't wait too long By Scenario on June 9, It's not Austen, and it's not Bronte. It's Dickens and it's great. Andrew Davies, BBC, and the all-star cast did an amazing job. Glad I finally got the chance to watch it.

I highly, highly recommend. Especially if you can understand that Dickens is severe compared to Austen and gritty compared to Bronte both Bronte sisters ; and especially if this severity and grittiness does not turn you off. From some of the negative reviews, I think some were expecting the lightness of Austen. This is definitely not that. And as always, the cinematography is once again outstanding in this BBC production as the last several years have been.

By Kit Marlowe on December 3, I have never thought of Bleak House as Charles Dickens's best novel, but this series is the best film treatment of a Dickens novels since Alistair Sims's Christmas Carol. The acting is superb and subtle, allowing for thoughts to be conveyed without words.

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The parts of the book which critics, and sometimes with justice, called sentimental are here transformed into very moving and controlled scenes. I cannot recommend this series too highly. By R Retzler on January 29, Nicholas Nickleby is the tale of a young man whose father has died leaving his family penniless. Nicholas must find a job to support his mother and sister, Kate. The family turns for help to their uncle, Ralph Nickleby, a ruthless businessman, who has taken a dislike to his relatives.

Nicholas Nickleby was the third book written by Charles Dickens, and it was published in serial form monthly in and before being published as a book in At first, I found the book very readable. As with many books written in the s, the prose tends to be very wordy, and the style of the language is more stilted and formal than in books written more recently. I felt there were a lot of descriptive passages in the book that could have been edited, making the book more streamlined.

After a while, I felt that I got bogged down in the detail which made it somewhat less enjoyable to read. Also, Dickens introduces many characters throughout the book who really do not have a bearing on the overall tale. The characters seem to be part of amusing anecdotes used as filler to keep the serial going as long as possible. I felt that there was a lot of buildup to a climax, and then the story just petered out with minimal wrap-up compared to the amount of buildup.

For instance, we learn much about two aristocratic gentlemen and also a family of performers, none of whom figure largely at the end of the story, but there is very little to be learned about the future spouses of both Nicholas and Kate, even though they would have more bearing on the longer story.

Please skip the next paragraph as there are spoilers contained. I felt that there were some inconsistencies in how certain characters reacted. Nicholas seemed to be a very kind and honorable young man; however, at the beginning of the story, he seems to have a terrible temper which gets him into trouble.