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DavidCopperfield
 Volume One
Chapters One throughTwenty-eight
by Charles Dickens A Penn State University Electronic Classics SeriesPublication
 
David Copperfield, Volume One, Containing chapters one through twenty-eight,
by Charles Dickens
 
is a publi-cation of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por-table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this documentfile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his orher own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Univer-sity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ-ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumesany responsibility for the material contained withinthe document or for the file as an electronic transmis-sion, in any way.
David Copperfield, Volume One, Containing chapters one through twenty-eight,
by Charles Dickens
,
thePennsylvania State University,
Electronic Classics Series 
, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291is a Portable Document File produced as part of anongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy accessof those wishing to make use of them.Cover Design: Jim ManisCopyright © 2007 The Pennsylvania State University 
The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University.
 
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DAVID COPPERFIELD
by 
CHARLES DICKENS
 AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE HON. Mr. ANDMrs. RICHARD WATSON, OF ROCKINGHAM,NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.PREFACE TO 1850 EDITIONI
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NOT
 
FIND
 
IT
 
EASY 
to get sufficiently far away from this Book, inthe first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the com-posure which this formal heading would seem to require. My inter-est in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided betweenpleasure and regret — pleasure in the achievement of a long design,regret in the separation from many companions — that I am indanger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confi-dences, and private emotions.Besides which, all that I could say of the Story, to any purpose, Ihave endeavoured to say in it.It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know, how sorrow-fully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years’ imaginativetask; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portionof himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I have nothing else to tell;unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less momentstill) that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, morethan I have believed it in the writing.
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