David Copperfield

<p><b>Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci starring Dev Patel Tilda Swinton Hugh Laurie Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw</b><br><br>'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo Tolstoy<br><br>In <i>David Copperfield</i> - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather Mr Murdstone; his brilliant but unworthy school-friend Steerforth; 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. <br><br>Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeremy Tambling</p>