David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles

Author: Dickens, Charles

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 31 May 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘The Penguin English Library’ series.

Paperback | 1008 pages
189 x 188 x 46 | 684g

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben WhishawDickens’s epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield’s extraordinary journey through life, as he encounters villains, saviours, eccentrics and grotesques, including the wicked Mr Murdstone, stout-hearted Peggotty, formidable Betsey Trotwood, impecunious Micawber and odious Uriah Heep.

Dickens’s great Bildungsroman (based, in part, on his own boyhood, and which he described as a ‘favourite child’) is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic.