david copperfield  david copperfield is the novel dickens regarded as his &apos;favourite child&apos; and is considered his most autobiographical. as david recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are david&apos;s tyrannical stepfather, mr murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy, school-friend steerforth; his formidable aunt, betsey trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous uriah heep; frivolous, enchanting dora; and the magnificently impecunious micawber, one of literature&apos;s great comic creations.