David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
	List Price:   $5.95 Unit Price:   $4.76 You Save:   $1.19 (20%) ISBN-10:   0451530047 ISBN-13:   9780451530042 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Category:   Classics, Young Adults Pub. Date:   February 2006 Pages:   880 Format:   Mass Market
Awards
2007  Volunteer State Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Description/Notes
The quintessential novel from England's most beloved novelist, 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 author. David Copperfield is the quintessential novel by England's most beloved novelist. Based in part on Dickens's own life, it is the story of a young man's journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among its gloriously vivid cast of characters, he encounters his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; the frivolous, enchanting Dora; and one of literature's great comic creations, the magnificently impecunious Mr. Micawber - a character resembling Dickens's own father. 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.