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David Copperfield

Name: David Copperfield
Author: Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens · Public domain text

354,440 words · about 24 h 49 min to read

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David Copperfield is a novel by the English author Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity. As such, it is typically categorized in the bildungsroman genre. It was published as a serial in 1849 and 1850 and then as a book later in 1850.

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Author: Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
Language: English
Subjects: Orphans › Fiction, Autobiographical fiction, England › Fiction, Bildungsromans, Young men › Fiction, Boys › Fiction
Length: 354,440 words · about 24 h 49 min
Sections: 65 reader sections · Table of contents
Audiobook: Listen free (LibriVox)
Source: Project Gutenberg #766

Contents (65)

Opening about 4 min
1. I AM BORN about 19 min
2. I OBSERVE about 26 min
3. I HAVE A CHANGE about 27 min
4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE about 33 min
5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME about 32 min
6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE about 13 min
7. MY ‘FIRST HALF’ AT SALEM HOUSE about 31 min
8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON about 25 min
9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY about 21 min
10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR about 35 min
11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON’T LIKE IT about 29 min
12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FORM A GREAT RESOLUTION about 16 min
13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION about 35 min
14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME about 27 min
15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING about 17 min
16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE about 37 min
17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP about 30 min
18. A RETROSPECT about 13 min
19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY about 28 min
20. STEERFORTH’S HOME about 15 min
21. LITTLE EM’LY about 34 min
22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE about 38 min
23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION about 25 min
24. MY FIRST DISSIPATION about 15 min
25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS about 34 min
26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY about 27 min
27. TOMMY TRADDLES about 16 min
28. Mr. MICAWBER’S GAUNTLET about 33 min
29. I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN about 13 min
30. A LOSS about 14 min
31. A GREATER LOSS about 16 min
32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY about 33 min
33. BLISSFUL about 29 min
34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME about 14 min
35. DEPRESSION about 35 min
36. ENTHUSIASM about 29 min
37. A LITTLE COLD WATER about 14 min
38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP about 28 min
39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP about 33 min
40. THE WANDERER about 15 min
41. DORA’S AUNTS about 27 min
42. MISCHIEF about 34 min
43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT about 14 min
44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING about 26 min
45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT’S PREDICTIONS about 26 min
46. INTELLIGENCE about 23 min
47. MARTHA about 19 min
48. DOMESTIC about 20 min
49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY about 20 min
50. Mr. PEGGOTTY’S DREAM COMES TRUE about 17 min
51. THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY about 31 min
52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION about 39 min
53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT about 8 min
54. Mr. MICAWBER’S TRANSACTIONS about 25 min
55. TEMPEST about 21 min
56. THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD about 10 min
57. THE EMIGRANTS about 18 min
58. ABSENCE about 11 min
59. RETURN about 27 min
60. AGNES about 15 min
61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS about 20 min
62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY about 14 min
63. A VISITOR about 13 min
64. A LAST RETROSPECT about 7 min

The opening of 1. I AM BORN

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.

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