David Copperfield
By: ed. by W. Somerset Maugham, illus. by Everett Shinn.
Contributors: Maugham, W. Somerset 1874-1965 ed.
Series: The ten greatest novels of the world
Publisher: J. C. Winston Co.
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Boys -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Young men -- Fiction.; Stepfathers -- Fiction.; Child labor -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother and his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone weds David's mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt. Charles Dickens's classic tale of growing up.