David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens(1850)
Novelc. 850 pages
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
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by Charles Dickens(1850)
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
Charles Dickens(1850)
Dickens called it his favorite child, and you can feel his own autobiography pressing against the fiction. David's journey from abused childhood through failed first marriage to eventual happiness gives the novel its spine, but the real pleasures are the characters who crowd around him: Micawber, Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth. The prose has Dickens's characteristic energy, comic and sentimental and sharp by turns. It is the most personal of his great novels, and the one that most clearly announces: this is how a life feels from inside.