J.K. Rowling Comments on Completing the Series
cdayr
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Wed Feb 7 08:22:47 UTC 2007
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Caius Marcius"
<coriolan at ...> wrote:
>
<snip>
>
> The Dickens quotation that JKR cites was in reference to David
> Copperfield and if you've never read it, then rejoice! DC,
> Dickens' greatest novel, and your opportunity to face-time with
such
> immortals as Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and Wilkins Micawber is
merely a
> click away:
>
> http://www.19thnovels.com/davidcopperfield.php
>
<snip lovely references to how amazing DC is>
>
> And remember - in the 1935 film version, the role of Micawber
was
> embodied by no less a personage than WC Fields
And don't forget the fairly recent (last 10 years) PBS/BBC? series
of David Copperfield with Daniel Radcliffe as young David!
-Celia, whose favorite-books-in-the-world list includes Dickens'
"Bleak House," but who also loves "David Copperfield," just a
little less, and is happy that JKR referenced DIckens...a great
match for her success, in many ways.
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