He grows up during the course of the story and becomes a celebrated fiction author, so I wonder if that autobiographical content gave it the soft spot in Dickens' heart. So I started without a clue of what to expect, except that David is one of Dickens' famous little orphan boys who had a very rough start. He seemed to be setting the challenge to see if we'd call it our favourite too. I discovered that of all he'd ever written, Dickens called it his 'favourite child.' Whether he meant David Copperfield the book or David the character, I wanted to find out why. I've read a few other Dickens novels, but this mammoth always slid beneath my radar. This is my choice for the 19th Century Classic category of the Back to the Classics Challenge, 2018. Warning: There are mild spoilers, but old classics are fair game. Originally published as a monthly serial, from 4/1849 to 11/1850. 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 & enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy & comedy in equal measure. 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 & the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature’s great comic creations. David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.
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