What I've tried to do in my stage magic is to take a trick and give it an emotional hook.

She has installed in him his lifelong tactic of pretending to be subservient to achieve his goals and even as his schemes fall apart David Copperfield begs him to save himself by "being 'umble. Buckley (Editor) Norton Critical Edition – contains annotations introduction critical essays bibliography and other material. He gains great power over Wickfield and several others but is finally discovered - by Wilkins Micawber - to have stolen money from Betsy Trotwood fooling Wickfield into thinking he has committed this act while drunk and blackmailed him.

And his name is David Copperfield. Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life and it is probably the most autobiographical of his novels. David Copperfield is the common name of the eighth novel by Charles Dickens first publiDavid Copperfieldd as a novel in 1850.