David Copperfield

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw Dickens`s great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful clothbound Penguin edition This is the novel Dickens regarded as his `favourite child` and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the `umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr Micawber, a portrait of Dickens`s own father which evokes a mixture of love, nostalgia and guilt. Dickens`s great Bildungsroman (based, in part, on his own boyhood) is a work filled with life, both comic and tragic.