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...Demon Copperhead is a retelling of David Copperfield, Charles Dickens’ epic on childhood poverty, but staged in Appalachia at the start of the opioid crisis....
...If only David Copperfield’s stepfather had been kinder, say, things would have turned out differently....
...Rarely a year goes by without Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House or A Christmas Carol boomeranging back on our screens, each hoping to be the definitive adaptation....
...A masterful recasting of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, it tells how a boy with no assets beats overwhelming odds to master his fate. An indictment of child poverty, it also attacks Big Pharma....
...For all these reasons, artists have rendered the subject in ways tragic (Jay Gatsby), sweet (David Copperfield), complex (Rastignac) and broad (Del Boy)....
...She is not only one of our greatest writers, she is one of our greatest teachers, and nowhere is her skill more evident than in Demon Copperhead, a retelling of David Copperfield set in modern-day Appalachia...
...A life begun in thoroughly rackety circumstances powers Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead (Faber, 21 hrs/3 mins), in which Dickens’s David Copperfield is transplanted to the impoverished Appalachians...
...Demon Copperheadby Barbara Kingsolver, Faber £20/Harper $32.50 Barbara Kingsolver’s updating of David Copperfield — Dickens’ most autobiographical novel — relocates the action to Appalachia to tell the...
...Mr Micawber, who memorably opines on money in David Copperfield, operates on the highly suspect principle of “something will turn up”....
...“Macron’s like [the magician] David Copperfield,” says a disgruntled Lermet. “He’s made the unemployment numbers go down and yet he still closes factories . . ....
...asks Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, alluding to his premature announcement of his plan to marry Agnes. We probably all have. Pears are a paradoxical fruit....
...The fourth guest at the table is Betsey Trotwood, a literary aunt to end all literary aunts, from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield....
...And it’s really fun to go on the David Copperfield warehouse tour, which is very interactive. My favourite apps are Postmates, Instacart or Venmo – all useful and transactional in some way....
...For Oliver Twist and David Copperfield — beloved poor boys made good — life in Victorian England could be pitiless....
...Everything that Armando Iannucci touches arrives with great expectations — but anyone expecting The Personal History of David Copperfield to be an acid-tongued update of Dickens is in for a surprise....
...Dev Patel’s role as David Copperfield also overturned casting tradition. Opening up casting raises questions of accuracy....
...As a palate cleanser, it makes sense that the director would open his next film — adapting Dickens in The Personal History of David Copperfield — with the happy occasion of a birth....
...Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby), but also the demonic Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop Our critic picks the best new science fiction (and horror) James Lovegrove’s round-up of terrifying tales of robots...
...The effect is made more striking by the ghostly presence of that hallowed London storyteller, Charles Dickens, freshly adapted in the film The Personal History of David Copperfield....
...Round on the Links The link was metals James Goldsmith (The Referendum party) Tin Machine (The singer was David Bowie) David Copperfield Iron lung Nickelodeon (“Put another nickel in . . . ”) Google Chrome...
...He sees shadowy self-portraits not only in the obvious places — the protagonists of David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby and Great Expectations — but in the demonic Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop and the...
...Mr Seagull recalls the Micawber principle from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, where ending the year sixpence under or over budget produced the binary result of either “happiness” or “misery”....
...If only Murdstone were kinder to David Copperfield. If only all bosses were as nice as Fezziwig....
...Dev Patel: the new face of Dickens Danny Leigh The son of Gujarati-born parents, the actor discusses being cast in Armando Iannucci’s zippy David Copperfield adaptation and how it challenges notions of...
...It is a good time for Armando Iannucci to release his film of David Copperfield, both sad and hopeful. It is a parade of comic innocents and a theme that more unites humanity than divides it....
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