Excerpt from The Childhood of David Copperfield: The Early Chapters of the Author"s Novel, With an Introduction and Notes
One may arrange a part of Dickens"s work for a special kind of readers with a very good conscience, for Dickens himself set an example in the arrangements he made for his own public readings. There is, however, not much arrangement made here of the part of David Copperfield presented, beyond the omission of chapters I. and IV. A few other passages have been omitted, usually because they have such reference to later parts of the story as would make them puzzling to one who was only reading the beginning.
In the Introduction I have not presented any helps to study, but have contented myself with doing something to give the reading of the story a little more meaning. It is possible that the third part of the Introduction may be somewhat advanced for the pupils into whose hands this book may come. It is meant more especially for teachers, and will, perhaps, give them some help in the comments they may make on the readings in class. But even if it is advanced for some pupils it will do them no harm to read it It is rarely harmful to try to understand something written for people a little older than oneself.
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