David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Coming of Age Victorian England

Written by Charles Dickens
Read by Richard Armitage
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

· Length: 36 hrs and 30 mins
· Release date: 02-09-16
· Publisher: Brilliance Audio

David Copperfield is the quintessential novel by England’s most beloved novelist. Based in part on Dickens’s own life, it is the story of a young man’s journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among its gloriously vivid cast of characters, he encounters his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; the frivolous, enchanting Dora; and one of literature’s great comic creations, the magnificently impecunious Mr. Micawber—a character resembling Dickens’s own father.

In David Copperfield—the novel he described as his “favorite child”—Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

It is a Bildungsroman, a tale that follows the development into maturity of its narrator, David Copperfield.

Charles Dickens’s classic receives new life through Richard Armitage’s adept narration. Dickens’s novels, though epic, tend to be more heavy on character than on action, and Armitage skillfully draws listeners in. Young Copperfield’s story takes him on an incredible journey that involves many trials and tribulations as well as dozens of memorable characters who help and hinder him. Armitage’s ability to create so many unique characters– including the villainous Mr. and Miss Murdstone, indomitable Betsy Trotwood, sweet little Emily, wicked Uriah Heep, and so many more–gives each one a life of his or her own. All in all, Richard Armitage creates an audio masterpiece. A.G.M. 2017 Audies Finalist © AudioFile

Uploader’s note…The original of this torrent was in one of those everything and nothing collection. Downloader wanted this narrator but said it was damaged and abridged. It was complete but several chapters were mislabeled or out of place and chapter 43 was 10hrs long.