At long last I have finished Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. I am a very slow reader and so my Dickens intake has been very limited down the years. I think its only Christmas Carol, Great Expectations and Hard Times plus pretty much all of Oliver Twist that I've managed. I've now got through the biggest novel (880 pages). I mostly enjoyed it but Dickens really has all the time in the world. Quite autobiographical, it really is a masterpiece full of very memorable characters (Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mr Dick, etc). I'm sure a re-read would reveal all sorts of things I missed. I've also watched a version of the story that was on BBC many Christmasses back (Daniel Ratcliff, Maggie Smith, Trevor Eve, etc, etc). Such productions can only sketch over the story. Traddles, for example, disappears.
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