TY - BOOK AU - Dickens, Charles, AU - Austen, John. TI - The personal history of David Copperfield AV - PR4558 DIC PY - 1979/// CY - Connecticut PB - The Easton Press KW - England KW - Fiction KW - Boys KW - Child labor KW - Young men KW - Stepfathers N1 - Bound in genuine leather; Printed on archival quality paper; Printed and bound in the United States of America. N2 - Growing up is never easy--especially if your name happens to be David Copperfield. Orphaned as an infant, David must suffer the privation and cruelties of his evil stepfather, Mr. Murdstone--who packs David away to a workhouse at the age of ten! A trusting but vulnerable boy and practically alone in the world, David finds himself time after time at the mercy of a rogue's gallery of characters: the dashing but deceitful Steerforth, the detestable clerk Uriah Heep, and, last but not least, the beautiful but ditzy Dora. With friends like these it's a miracle that David grows up at all! ER -