"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."

Considered to be Charles Dickens' most autobiographical work, David Copperfield begins at the beginning—with the main character describing the events surrounding his birth (as far as he knows). David's journey of growing up and finding his place in the world is filled with setbacks and harsh realizations, told from the perspective of a man who has finally found happiness.

Of his fourteen full-length novels, Dickens often referred to David Copperfield as his 'favourite child' and it's easy to see why. A coming-of-age story inspired by Dickens' own childhood, it is at times both wildly comic and depressingly tragic—just like life itself.

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