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David Copperfield is born into a loving family and lives happily with his mother. When David's mother decides to marry the cruel Edward Murdstone, everything changes. Abused and ill-treated by his stepfather, David is sent to a boarding school, the Salem House where he makes friends with the unfortunate Tom Taddles and James Steerforth. David returns home upon the demise of his mother and half-brother. He is neglected by his stepfather who sends him to work at their family factory to earn his own livelihood. After spending a miserable life at the factory, David runs away to his great aunt Betsy Trotwood. David Copperfield never gives up and fights the odds, with the few people who love him. David Copperfield presents the life sketch of Charles Dickens. This novel illustrates a tale of innocence, courage, love, and hope. This whole story of the novel is based on personal experiences of Dickens. Several film and television adaptations have been taken from this novel.
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Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsea, England. His parents were middle-class and suffered financially. When Dickens was twelve years old, his family faced financial crisis, which forced him to quit school and work in a shoe polish manufacturing factory. Dickens's mother and siblings eventually joined him. Dickens continued to work at the factory for several months. In the factory the horrific conditions haunted him throughout his life. Dickens never forgot the day when a senior boy in the warehouse took it upon himself to instruct Dickens how to do his work more efficiently.
As a young adult, Dickens worked as a law clerk and later as a journalist. He perceived the darker social conditions of the Industrial Revolution. A collection of semi-fictional sketches entitled Sketches by Boz earned him recognition as a writer. Dickens began to make money from his writing when he published his first novel, The Pickwick Papers in 1836. The Pickwick Papers was hugely popular and Dickens became a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Dickens's themes included wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil. In 1836, Dickens married Catherine Hogarth, but after twenty years of marriage and their ten children, he fell in love with Ellen Ternan, an actress many years his junior. Soon after, Dickens and his wife separated. Dickens remained a prolific writer to the end of his life, and his novels – Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Bleak House – continued to earn critical and popular acclaim. He died of a stroke in 1870, at the age of 58.
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