
“David Copperfield is filled with characters of the most astonishing variety, vividness, and originality. They are not realistic and yet they abound with life. There never were such people as the Micawbers, Pegotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination, but they have so much vigor, they are so consistent, they are presented with so much conviction, that you believe in them. They are extravagant, but not unreal, and when you have once to know them you can never quite forget them.”
— Somerset Maugham
“In David Copperfield, though char-acters swarm and life flows into every creek and cranny, some common feelings--youth, gaiety, hope--envelops the tumult, brings the scattered parts together, and invests the most perfect of all the Dickens novels with an atmosphere of beauty.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Dickens excelled in character; in the creation of characters of greater intensity than human beings.”
— T. S. Eliot
David Copperfield
Year
1850
Pages
901
Praise
“David Copperfield is filled with characters of the most astonishing variety, vividness, and originality. They are not realistic and yet they abound with life. There never were such people as the Micawbers, Pegotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination, but they have so much vigor, they are so consistent, they are presented with so much conviction, that you believe in them. They are extravagant, but not unreal, and when you have once to know them you can never quite forget them.”
— Somerset Maugham
“In David Copperfield, though char-acters swarm and life flows into every creek and cranny, some common feelings--youth, gaiety, hope--envelops the tumult, brings the scattered parts together, and invests the most perfect of all the Dickens novels with an atmosphere of beauty.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Dickens excelled in character; in the creation of characters of greater intensity than human beings.”
— T. S. Eliot
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