description: 'I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction.' So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (1850), the novel he called his 'favourite child'. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as David Copperfield recalls his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth and Uriah Heep are among the characters who focus the hero's sexual and emotional drives, and Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evokes the mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt that, put together, make this Dickens's most quoted and best-loved novel.
language: English
title: David Copperfield
titlecomplete: David Copperfield
characters: Mr. Mills, Rosa Dartle, Miss Emma Micawber, Miss Dora Spenlow, Mrs. Heep, Miss Jane Murdstone, Mr. Chillip, Mr. Spenlow, Mrs. Clara Copperfield, Mrs. Gummidge, Mr. Barkis, Minnie Omer, Agnes Wickfield, Mr. Tiffey, Mrs. Annie Strong, Mr. Omer, Martha Endell, Littimer, Miss Betsey Trotwood, Ham Peggotty, Mr. Creakle, Mrs. Creakle, Mrs. Crupp, Miss Lavinia, Little Em'ly, Mr. Quinion, Mr. Wickfield, Mr. Joram, Doady, Miss Creakle, Little Emily, The Rev. Horace Crewler, Mr. Jorkens, Miss Lavina Spenlow, Mr. Wilkins  Micawber, Thomas Traddles, Mrs. Marckleham, Clara Peggotty, Mr. Charles Mell, Mrs. Steerforth, Mrs. Emma Micawber, James Steerforth, Master Wilkins Micawber, Miss Dartle, Sophy Crewler, Anne Strong, Uriah Heep, Mr. Francis Spenlow, Miss Julia Mills, Mrs. Crewler, Miss Mowcher, David Copperfield, Jack Maldon, Miss Clarissa Spenlow, Daniel Peggotty, Dr. Strong, Richard Babley, Mr. Edward Murdstone
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Victorian
ratings_count: 231422
places: Kent, England, England, Canterbury, Kent, England, London, England, Great Yarmouth, England, Dover, Kent, England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction of Nonfiction Licenses or Distributed for Martin Jarvis
publisher: Naxos Audio Books