num_pages: 817
description: Of all Dickens's novels, DAVID COPPERFIELD most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of a gentle orphan discovering life and love in an indifferent adult world. Persecuted by his wrathful stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; deceived by his boyhood idol, the callous, charming Steerforth; driven into moral combat with the snivelling clerk Uriah Heep; and hurled, pell-mell, into a blizzard of infatuation with the adorably dim-witted Dora, he survives the worst - and the best - with inimitable style, his bafflement turning to self-awareness and his unbridled young heart growing ever more disciplined and true.Of this richly autobiographical novel Dickens himself wrote, "Like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield."
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: 231355
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: Bantam Books