num_pages: 891
description: When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventure, David meets an array of eccentric characters and learns hard lessons about the world before he finally discovers true happiness.Charles Dickens’s most celebrated novel and the author’s own favorite, David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic. In a book that is part fairy tale and part thinly veiled autobiography, Dickens transmutes his life experience into a brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists he so much admired.This edition reprints the original Everyman preface by G. K. Chesterton and includes thirty-nine illustrations by Phiz.
language: English
title: David Copperfield
titlecomplete: David Copperfield
characters: Mr. Spenlow, Jack Maldon, Mrs. Crupp, Richard Babley, Miss Emma Micawber, Miss Lavinia, Master Wilkins Micawber, Mr. Francis Spenlow, Mr. Joram, Thomas Traddles, Mrs. Gummidge, Miss Julia Mills, Little Emily, Mr. Mills, Mrs. Clara Copperfield, Mrs. Creakle, Mrs. Annie Strong, Miss Lavina Spenlow, David Copperfield, The Rev. Horace Crewler, Littimer, Miss Betsey Trotwood, Dr. Strong, Rosa Dartle, Doady, Miss Creakle, Mr. Tiffey, Mrs. Emma Micawber, Clara Peggotty, Uriah Heep, Mr. Quinion, James Steerforth, Miss Clarissa Spenlow, Martha Endell, Mr. Wilkins  Micawber, Little Em'ly, Mrs. Marckleham, Mr. Creakle, Miss Jane Murdstone, Mr. Chillip, Mrs. Heep, Mr. Omer, Mr. Wickfield, Agnes Wickfield, Mr. Barkis, Ham Peggotty, Anne Strong, Miss Mowcher, Miss Dartle, Mr. Charles Mell, Minnie Omer, Mr. Jorkens, Sophy Crewler, Miss Dora Spenlow, Mr. Edward Murdstone, Daniel Peggotty, Mrs. Crewler, Mrs. Steerforth
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Literature, Victorian, Novels
ratings_count: 231349
places: Dover, Kent, England, England, London, England, Canterbury, Kent, England, Great Yarmouth, England, Kent, England
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction of Nonfiction Licenses or Distributed for Martin Jarvis
publisher: Everyman's Library