Word: copperfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Maugham had also contributed prefaces to each volume revealing "intimate and startling details of the romantic and domestic side" of each author. The first two of these treasures will be published next week, entitled W. Somerset Maugham Presents Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and W. Somerset Maugham Presents Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. The $3.50 price tag might seem high, though, to readers who could get the same books entire-without Mr. Maugham's abridgments...
...Jones, Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, Wuthering Heights, David Copperfield, Le Pere Goriot, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace...
...classic Life of Charles Dickens, Forster presented the public with only the best of the man who was his best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
...Copperfield at 40. "Success," observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, from his vantage point as American consul in Liverpool, "makes an Englishman intolerable, [but] an Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles...
...influence of Hollywood on language, women's fashions, home furnishings, etc., is incalculable. When David Copperfield was being ballyhooed, the Cleveland Public Library, which had 500 copies of the book, was cleaned out of it and other Dickens works for weeks. Four U.S. publishing houses sold all their copies of Wuthering Heights while the picture was showing...