David copperfield

David Copperfield states his intention to tell the story of his life, beginning from the very moment of his birth. This takes place six months after the death of his father (also named David Copperfield). David's earliest memories are of a happy, makeshift family consisting of himself, his mother Clara, and the motherly housekeeper, Peggotty. When David is seven or eight years old, however, Clara begins to spend a great deal of time with a man named Mr. Murdstone, whom David instinctively dislikes and fears. Eventually, Peggotty takes David on a trip to see her brother, Mr. Peggotty, who is a fisherman in Yarmouth. David enjoys the visit—particularly Mr. Peggotty's niece, little Em'ly, whom David becomes infatuated with. When he and Peggotty return home, however, David learns that his mother and Mr. Murdstone have married, and that Mr. Murdstone's sister, Miss Murdstone, has come to live with them. Both Mr. and Miss Murdstone are bullies determined to have their way, and they use David as a pawn in their efforts to train Clara to behave "firmly." The Murdstones spitefully send David away to a boarding school run by an abusive headmaster named Mr. Creakle. David's time at the school is not entirely unhappy, as he befriends Tommy Traddles, a kindhearted boy, and James Steerforth, an older, wealthy, and charismatic student who takes David under his wing. David's schooling ends abruptly, however, when he hears that both his mother and her new baby have died. After Clara's fu...

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David Copperfield is the first living illusionist to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: he won the star on April 25th, 1995, for the category "Live Performance" and the address is 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, USA. On October 2nd, 1994, he was knighted by the French government as Chevalier of Arts and Letters, and on May 22th, 1999, he received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Fordham University. Along with 16 of his groundbreaking 19 TV specials were nominated for Emmy Awards 38 times between 1979 and 2001, and 10 of them have won 21 times between 1981 and 1995. Year after year he continues to tour sold-out arenas throughout the world. He holds 11 Guinness World Records, published in the 2006 edition of this book (pag. 179) and has sold more tickets than any other solo entertainer in history, with ticket sales in the billions, more than Sound impossible? David Copperfield built a reputation on making the impossible look easy. He singlehandedly redefined his art, and remains the most emulated illusionist in the history of magic. An only child, David was born in Metuchen, New Jersey, USA, on September 16th, 1956, as David Seth Kotkin. His father, At 18 (1974), he graduated from Metuchen High School and then enrolled at Fordham University, a Jesuit based school in New York City. But after just a week he was cast as the lead in "The Magic Man", a new musical comedy created by the producers of When "The Magic Man" closed afte...

David Copperfield David Copperfield, in full The Personal History of David Copperfield, David Copperfield has always been among Dickens’s most popular novels and was his own “favourite child.” The work is semiautobiographical, and, although the title character differs from his creator in many ways, Dickens related early personal experiences that had meant much to him—his work in a factory, his schooling and reading, and (more cursorily) his emergence from parliamentary reporting into successful novel writing. Summary The story is told in the first person by a middle-aged David Copperfield Miss Betsey arranges for David to go to a school run by Doctor Strong and to stay with her business manager, Mr. Wickfield, and his daughter, After agreeing to Miss Betsey’s idea that he should become a David finds that Traddles is now a boarder with Mr. and Mrs. Micawber. Upon learning that Barkis is on the point of death, he returns to Yarmouth. After Barkis’s funeral, Emily runs away with Steerforth, and Mr. Peggotty vows to find her. David returns to London and becomes engaged to Dora. Miss Betsey unexpectedly arrives with the news that she has been financially ruined as a result of Uriah Heep’s partnership with Wickfield. To add to his income, David begins working for Doctor Strong as a secretary, and at Traddles’s suggestion he starts reporting on parliamentary debates for newspapers; later he also writes fiction. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive co...

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David Copperfield states his intention to tell the story of his life, beginning from the very moment of his birth. This takes place six months after the death of his father (also named David Copperfield). David's earliest memories are of a happy, makeshift family consisting of himself, his mother Clara, and the motherly housekeeper, Peggotty. When David is seven or eight years old, however, Clara begins to spend a great deal of time with a man named Mr. Murdstone, whom David instinctively dislikes and fears. Eventually, Peggotty takes David on a trip to see her brother, Mr. Peggotty, who is a fisherman in Yarmouth. David enjoys the visit—particularly Mr. Peggotty's niece, little Em'ly, whom David becomes infatuated with. When he and Peggotty return home, however, David learns that his mother and Mr. Murdstone have married, and that Mr. Murdstone's sister, Miss Murdstone, has come to live with them. Both Mr. and Miss Murdstone are bullies determined to have their way, and they use David as a pawn in their efforts to train Clara to behave "firmly." The Murdstones spitefully send David away to a boarding school run by an abusive headmaster named Mr. Creakle. David's time at the school is not entirely unhappy, as he befriends Tommy Traddles, a kindhearted boy, and James Steerforth, an older, wealthy, and charismatic student who takes David under his wing. David's schooling ends abruptly, however, when he hears that both his mother and her new baby have died. After Clara's fu...

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