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My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions-that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love, with personal confidences, and private emotions.  \nBesides which, all that I could say of the Story, to any purpose, I have endeavoured to say in it.  \nIt would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know, how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years’imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of 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 moment still) that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.  \nInstead of looking back, therefore, I will look forward. I cannot close this Volume more agreeably to myself, than with a hopeful glance towards the time when I shall again put forth my two green leaves once a month, and with a  \n􀀕 David Copperfield  \nfaithful remembrance of the genial sun and showers that have fallen on these leaves of David Copperfield, and made me happy.  \nLondon, October, 1850.  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 􀀒  \nPREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION  \nIREMARKEdid not findDit in theasyoorgigetinal Psufficriefencley tfoarthawisaByofokrom, thita, tiIn the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it was so recent and strong, and my mind was so divided between pleasure and regret-pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions-that I was in danger of wearying the reader with personal confidences and private emotions.  \nBesides which, all that I could have said of the Story to any purpose, I had endeavoured to say in it.  \nIt would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years’imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.  \nSo true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of all  \n􀀋 David Copperfield  \nmy books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that Iam a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD.  \n1869  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 􀀊  \nTHE PERSONAL HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE OF DAVID COPPERFIELD THE YOUNGER  \n􀀉 David Copperfield  \nCHAPTER 1  \nIAM BORN  \nWhethor wehreIthsheraltl tharsotiuoto bwilelthbeehheerldoboyfamy onybowdnyleilfsee,, 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. 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