num_pages: 821
description: Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham "There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them."This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.
language: English
title: David Copperfield
titlecomplete: David Copperfield
characters: Miss Dartle, Mr. Creakle, Ham Peggotty, Thomas Traddles, Mr. Jorkens, Richard Babley, Mr. Edward Murdstone, Mr. Tiffey, Mr. Charles Mell, Mrs. Creakle, Littimer, Mrs. Crewler, Rosa Dartle, Miss Clarissa Spenlow, Daniel Peggotty, Mr. Mills, Minnie Omer, Miss Julia Mills, Mr. Spenlow, Clara Peggotty, Uriah Heep, Miss Creakle, James Steerforth, Miss Betsey Trotwood, The Rev. Horace Crewler, Jack Maldon, Little Em'ly, Mrs. Crupp, Dr. Strong, Martha Endell, Mrs. Steerforth, Mr. Joram, Mr. Chillip, Doady, Miss Emma Micawber, Agnes Wickfield, Mrs. Annie Strong, Little Emily, Miss Lavinia, Sophy Crewler, Miss Mowcher, Mr. Francis Spenlow, Mr. Barkis, Miss Jane Murdstone, Miss Lavina Spenlow, Anne Strong, Mr. Quinion, Mr. Wickfield, Mrs. Gummidge, Miss Dora Spenlow, Mrs. Clara Copperfield, Mr. Wilkins  Micawber, Mrs. Emma Micawber, Master Wilkins Micawber, Mrs. Heep, David Copperfield, Mrs. Marckleham, Mr. Omer
genres: Audiobook, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 231347
places: England, London, England, Great Yarmouth, England, Canterbury, Kent, England, Kent, England, Dover, Kent, England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction of Nonfiction Licenses or Distributed for Martin Jarvis
publisher: Modern Library