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David Copperfield
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I took David Copperfield as my template and I just laid my book right over it because it worked so well.
What they say about it
- Serving as a literary template“took David Copperfield as my template”3
- Reading in reverse order“read David Copperfield after reading Demon Copperhead”2
The best things said about it
It is a retelling of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield reframed here to explore Appalachia and the opioid crisis.
I actually went back and read David Copperfield after reading Demon Copperhead so I did it in the reverse order.
The ghost in the room here is Charles Dickens because I owe him everything with respect to this book.
This is a novel that is following loosely in the structure of David Copperfield by Dickens.
Ezra Klein The Ezra Klein Show · Jul 2023 You are reminding me of the part of David Copperfield where Mr. Micawber says, If you have 20 pounds of annual expense, and at the end of the year, you have 20 pounds and 1 pence, you are a rich person.
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Why people recommend it
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is a classic 1850 semi-autobiographical novel that follows the emotional and professional maturation of its titular hero from an impoverished childhood to adulthood. The timeless masterpiece was frequently discussed on Freakonomics Radio and The Book Review, as well as on The Ezra Klein Show, largely due to its enduring cultural footprint and its role as a structural template for Barbara Kingsolver's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Demon Copperhead. On The Ezra Klein Show, both Klein and Kingsolver discussed how Dickens's novel served as the vital key and blueprint for transposing the classic narrative of youthful resilience into a modern Appalachian setting dealing with the opioid crisis. Guests on The Book Review, including Elisabeth Egan and Will Schwalbe, reflected on reading the Victorian classic either alongside or in reverse order of its modern counterpart, while David Lang on Freakonomics Radio referenced the novel's famous financial wisdom from Mr. Micawber to illustrate economic perspectives.
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Barbara Kingsolver The ghost in the room here is Charles Dickens because I owe him everything with respect to this book Charle… 2
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“The ghost in the room here is Charles Dickens because I owe him everything with respect to this book Charles Dickens is the key I finally found to the door of that house of this novel”
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“no but I took David Copperfield as my template and I just laid my book right over it because it worked so well”
Andrew Sullivan i think david copperfield 1
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“i think david copperfield”
David Lang You are reminding me of the part of David Copperfield where Mr. Micawber says, "If you have 20 pounds of an… 1
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“You are reminding me of the part of David Copperfield where Mr. Micawber says, "If you have 20 pounds of annual expense, and at the end of the year, you have 20 pounds and 1 pence, you are a rich person.”
Elisabeth Egan I'm not a particular Dickens fan I actually went back and read David Copperfield after reading demon Copper… 1
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“I'm not a particular Dickens fan I actually went back and read David Copperfield after reading demon Copperhead so I did it in the reverse order”
Ezra Klein and this is a novel that is following Loosely in the structure of David Copperfield by Dickens 1
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“and this is a novel that is following Loosely in the structure of David Copperfield by Dickens”
Johann Hari i remember reading um the charles dickens novel david copperfield and being like okay come on come on 1
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“i remember reading um the charles dickens novel david copperfield and being like okay come on come on”
MJ Franklin it is a retelling of Charles dickens's David Copperfield reframed here to explore Appalachia and the opioid… 1
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“it is a retelling of Charles dickens's David Copperfield reframed here to explore Appalachia and the opioid crisis”
Pamela Paul um he is an and most recently the narrator of a new audible version of Charles Dickinson's David Copperfield 1
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“um he is an and most recently the narrator of a new audible version of Charles Dickinson's David Copperfield”
Will Schwalbe one of the the chapters that means the most to me is the chapter about David Copperfield because that's rem… 1
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“one of the the chapters that means the most to me is the chapter about David Copperfield because that's remembering remembering exactly”
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“and we have Charles Dickens to thank for this evidently because he gets credit for using the creeps and David Copperfield in 1849 people had had this feeling before”
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Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“I mean to for some reason we never apply this um rule of there must be a main verb to the title of a book like Bleak House or David Copperfield.”
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“David Copperfield, Great Expectations.”
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“I mean you know, I mean Jane Eyre is is auto fiction, you know, David Copperfield, Joyce,”
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“I certainly have never read to this day David Copperfield and but so much of this especially at the beginning”
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“he's reading David Copperfield and he read aloud to me this really terrible letter that Mr mobber writes”
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“i read david copperfield”
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“So I I know that for example in the UK during the Roman times there were melons that you could grow you can grow melons and then in Charles Dickens times in one of his books I think it was David Copperfield uh the temps was frozen over”
Speaker Behind the Bastards Bjorn Lomborg: Patient Zero of Climate Denial 2019-10-15 Listen at 55:27
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“that was Richard Armitage he is the narrator of a new version of David Copperfield from Audible”