The orphaned David makes his way from cruelty and poverty to authorship, meeting Micawber, Steerforth, Uriah Heep, and the steadfast Peggottys along the road.
Books mentioned in David Copperfield (11)
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett: “Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield”
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
Gil Blas by Alain-René Lesage: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.”
A Thousand and One Nights: “they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii,--and did me no harm”
Tales of the Genii by James Ridley: “They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time,--they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii,--and did me no harm; for whatever harm was in some of them was not there for me; I knew nothing of it.”
The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe: “Of all the moveables in it, I must have been impressed by a certain old bureau of some dark wood in the parlour (the tile-floored kitchen was the general sitting-room), with a retreating top which opened, let down, and became a desk, within which was a large quarto edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.”
Trilby by George du Maurier: “Then Mrs. Bagot, as a reward for such winning docility, would read her _David Copperfield_, and that was heavenly indeed!”
The Octopus by Frank Norris: “When Presley reached Annixter's ranch house, he found young Annixter himself stretched in his hammock behind the mosquito-bar on the front porch, reading "David Copperfield," and gorging himself with dried prunes.”
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin: “I've read The Lamplighter, and Scottish Chiefs, and Ivanhoe, and The Heir of Redclyffe, and Cora, the Doctor's Wife, and David Copperfield, and The Gold of Chickaree, and Plutarch's Lives, and Thaddeus of Warsaw, and Pilgrim's Progress, and lots more.”
The Virginian by Owen Wister: ““DAVID COPPERFIELD.” There it was on the floor.”
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster: “I never read Mother Goose or David Copperfield or Ivanhoe...”
So Big by Edna Ferber: “as a similar group had stared at David Copperfield when he was innocent of having bolted the huge dinner ordered in the inn on his way to London.”
The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis: “There's _David Copperfield_, and that book by Wells, _Tono-Bungay_”
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai: “I told eighteen-year-old Ian to read David Copperfield (“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”)”
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis: “Now I'm going to start you off reading 'David Copperfield.'”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Pip in Great Expectations, David Copperfield in his book, and Esther Summerson in Bleak House”
It by Stephen King: “The distance is quite imaginary.' —Charles Dickens, David Copperfield”
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: Epigraph: "It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present." — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Gai-Jin by James Clavell: “Same passage as Oliver Twist, above.”
In Search of a Character by Graham Greene: “"Now started re-reading David Copperfield." / "March 8th, Brazzaville Finishing David Copperfield."”