David Copperfield By Charles Dickens (Paperback, 2004)

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Drawing on Charles Dickens&s own often difficult childhood to create a compelling story of personal success David Copperfield is edited with an introduction & notes by Jeremy Tambling in Penguin Classics David Copperfield is the story of a young man&s adventures on his journey from an unhappy & 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 brilliant but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous enchanting Dora Spenlow; & the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber one of literature&s great comic creations In David Copperfield
- the novel he described as his &favourite child&
- Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant & enduringly popular works filled with tragedy & comedy in equal measure This edition uses the text of the first volume publication of 1850 &

Includes:: updated suggestions for further reading original illustrations by & Phiz& a revised chronology & expanded notes In his new introduction Jeremy Tambling discusses the novel&s autobiographical elements & its central themes of memory & identity Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012 His most famous books including Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield & The Pickwick Papers have been adapted for stage & screen & read by millions If you enjoyed David Copperfield you might like Dickens&s Great Expectations also available in Penguin Classics & The most perfect of all the Dickens novels& Virginia Woolf