Information about the book Title: David Copperfield Author: Charles dickens
English novelist and one of the best known writers of world literature. In his extensive work masterfully combined storytelling, humor, and irony tragic sense with acid social criticism and a fine description of people and places, both real and imagined. He was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, and spent most of her childhood in London and Kent, places that appeared frequently in his works. He started attending school at age nine, but his studies were interrupted when his father, a small but carefree affable official, was jailed in 1824 for not paying their debts. The young Charles was forced, therefore, to support himself, and went to work in a dye factory. This unpleasant experience he later described, only slightly altered, in his novel David Copperfield (1850), gave him a sense of humiliation and abandonment that accompanied him for the rest of his life. Between 1824 and 1826 went back to school, but most of his education was self-taught. Among his favorite books were those of some of the great novelists of the eighteenth century, as Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett, whose influence can be perceived clearly in his own writings. Soon Charles managed to get fame, a good job and money. Dickens extraliterary activities included managing a theater company which operated until the accession of Queen Victoria in 1851, and the readings of his works in England and in America. However, these successes were marred by family problems. The incompatibility of characters and the author's relationship with the young actress Ellen Ternan, led to the dissolution of marriage, in 1858, the result of which were born ten children. He died on June 9, 1870 and was buried five days later in Westminster Abbey.
Publishing House: Burlington Books