David Copperfield

´Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show´. Born to a mother already six months widowed, the young David Copperfield suffers at the hands of a tyrannical stepfather and at the hard graft of the factory floor. But his boyhood wanderings take him from Suffolk and London to Dover and beyond - and through the lives of a host of colourful characters - on his path to adulthood, and the discovery of his own vocation. Dickens´ great Bildungsroman (based, in part, on his own life story, and which he held in his ´heart of hearts´ as a ´favourite child´), "David Copperfield" is an epic, exuberant novel, filled with life, both tragic and comic.