TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles AU - Austen,John TI - The Personal History of David Copperfield T2 - The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written SN - 9788424155117 U1 - 823.8 PY - 1979/// CY - Norwalk, Connecticut PB - Easton Press KW - Boys KW - Fiction KW - England KW - Orphans KW - Young men KW - Novelists KW - Stepfathers KW - Child labor KW - gsafd KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - Bildungsromans KW - lcgft N2 - 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 novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. 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. ER -