David Copperfield
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Subjects: England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Stepfathers -- Fiction; Child labor -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Autobiographical fiction; Bildungsromans
Description: <p>Like many of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens">Dickens’</a> works, <i>David Copperfield</i> was published serially, then as a complete novel for the first time in 1850. Dickens himself thought of it as his favorite novel, writing in the preface that of all his works <i>Copperfield</i> was his favorite child. This isn’t surprising, considering that many of the events in the novel are semi-autobiographical accounts from Dickens’ own life.</p>
			<p>In <i>David Copperfield</i> we follow the life of the titular character as he makes a life for himself in England. He finds himself in the care of a cold stepfather who sends him to boarding school, and from there embarks on a journey filled with characters and events that can only be called “Dickensian” in their colorful and just-barely-probable portrayals.</p>