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David Copperfield

by Charles Dickens

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Orphans -- FictionAutobiographical fictionEngland -- FictionBildungsromansYoung men -- Fiction

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  1. 01Front matter~6 min
  2. 02CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN — part 1~25 min
  3. 03CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN — part 2~5 min
  4. 04CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE — part 1~25 min
  5. 05CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE — part 2~14 min
  6. 06CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE — part 1~25 min
  7. 07CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE — part 2~16 min
  8. 08CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE — part 1~25 min
  9. 09CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE — part 2~25 min
  10. 10CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME — part 1~25 min
  11. 11CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME — part 2~24 min
  12. 12CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE~19 min
  13. 13CHAPTER 7. MY ‘FIRST HALF’ AT SALEM HOUSE — part 1~25 min
  14. 14CHAPTER 7. MY ‘FIRST HALF’ AT SALEM HOUSE — part 2~22 min
  15. 15CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON — part 1~25 min
  16. 16CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON — part 2~13 min
  17. 17CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY — part 1~25 min
  18. 18CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY — part 2~6 min
  19. 19CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR — part 1~25 min
  20. 20CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR — part 2~25 min
  21. 21CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR — part 3~3 min
  22. 22CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON’T LIKE IT — part 1~25 min
  23. 23CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON’T LIKE IT — part 2~19 min
  24. 24CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FORM A GREAT RESOLUTION~25 min
  25. 25CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION — part 1~25 min
  26. 26CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION — part 2~25 min
  27. 27CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION — part 3~4 min
  28. 28CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME — part 1~25 min
  29. 29CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME — part 2~16 min
  30. 30CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING~25 min

A few words to begin

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. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously. In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.

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