description: "I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield." wrote Dickens of what is the most personal, certainly one of the most popular, of all his novels. This, his eighth novel, was published in twenty parts from May 1849 to November 1850. Dickens wrote the book after the completion of a fragment of autobiography recalling his employment as a child in a London warehouse, and the first-person narrative was a new departure for him stylistically. The embodiment of his boyhood experience in the novel involved a 'complicated interweaving of truth and fiction', at its most subtle in the portrait of his father as Mr. Micawber, one of Dickens' greatest comic creations. Enjoying a humor that never becomes caricature, the reader shares David's affection for the eccentric Betsey Trotwood and her protege Mr. Dick, and smiles with the narrator at the trials he endures in his love for the delightfully silly Dora. The settings--East Anglia and the London of the 1820s--people and events are unified by their relationship to the story of steer forth's treachery. With an introduction by Professor HM Daleski.
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: 231453
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: Toby Pr