Chapter 93

Pages 21-50.

DAVID COPPERFIELD AND BLEAK HOUSE. ÆT. 38-41.

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Interest of _Copperfield_ 21 Real people in novels 22 Scott, Smollett, and Fielding 22 Complaint and atonement 23 Earlier and later methods 24 Boythorn and Skimpole 26 Yielding to temptation 27 Changes made in Skimpole 28 Relatives put into books 29 Scott and his father 29 Dickens and his father 30 No harm done 32 Micawber and Skimpole 32 Dickens and David 33 Dangers of autobiography 34 Design of David's character 35 Why books continue 36 The storm and shipwreck 37 Goethe on the insane 38 The two heroines 39 Risks not worth running 40 Devonshire Terrace 41 _Bleak House_ 43 Defects of the novel 44 Set-offs and successes 45 Value of critical judgments 46 The contact of extremes 47 Dean Ramsay on Jo 48 Town graves 49 One last friend 49 Truth of Gridley's case 50