Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 1024 pages | ISBN 9780140439441 | 28 Dec 2004 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
A newly revised edition of Dickens's best-loved novel
David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature’s great comic creations. In David Copperfield—the novel he described as his “favorite child”—Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.
This edition uses the text of the first book edition of 1850
Includes updated suggestions for further reading, a revised chronology, and expanded notes
introduction discusses the novel's autobiographical elements and its central themes of memory and identity
