David Copperfield
David Copperfield,a novel by Dickens , published 1849 – 50 . ‘Of all my books,’ wrote Dickens, ‘I like this the best’, and it has always been a favourite with a wide public. It is (in some of its details) Dickens's veiled autobiography.
David Copperfield is born at Blunderstone (of which the original is the village of Blundeston) in Suffolk, soon after the death of his father. His mother, a gentle, weak woman, marries again, and her second husband Mr Murdstone , by cruelty disguised as firmness and abetted by Miss Murdstone his sister, drives her to an early grave. Young Copperfield , who has proved recalcitrant, is sent to school, where he is bullied by the tyrannical headmaster Creakle , but makes two friends in the brilliant and fascinating Steerforth and the good-humoured plodding Traddles. Thence he is sent to menial employment in London, where he lives a life of poverty and misery, enlivened by his...
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