Story · Britain · 1850
Pass it on
David Copperfield
69Worth an evening.
Long, and worth it for the marriages, if you can get past the Murdstones.
The review
David is sent to work, beaten at school, and saved more than once by people who are not his parents. I'm not going to linger on the beatings. The Murdstones are the abuse of a household, and that is enough to say. Charles Dickens wrote a childhood, a marriage, and the work of becoming a writer. The good marriages and the bad one are the lesson I actually kept.
It is long, and I lost a week to it once. The people who take him in are the reason I'd still put it in a teen's hands. The writing life comes later. First there is a child who is not safe with the adults who hold the house, and then there are adults who make another one.
Journal
Keep David Copperfield in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 8Industry
A boy is sent to work, and the later job is becoming a writer.
- 9Household
The Murdstones abuse a household; the good marriages and the bad one are the lesson.
- 6Piety
People who are not his parents save him more than once.
- 7Courage
He is beaten at school and sent to work, and other people take him in.
- 5Republic
School and hired-out labor are the systems around the child.
- 6Temperance
The bad marriage is the want that fails; the good ones are the check.
- 7Truth
He becomes a writer of a childhood the Murdstones kept looking proper.
- 7Stewardship
He is left the people who saved him, and the work of writing it down.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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