David Copperfield

<p>Charles Dickens' personal favourite <i>David Copperfield</i> is full of tragedy and comedy in equal measure and remains one of the most enduring and popular of Dickens' novels. Abridged for Puffin Classics.<br><br>Based in part on the author's own life <i>David Copperfield</i> is the epic story of a young man's journey of self-discovery - from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the memorable cast of characters he encounters along the way are his brutal stepfather Mr Murdstone; bubbly Nurse Peggotty; his brilliant but unworthy schoolmate Steerforth his eccentric aunt Betsy Trotwood the scheming clerk Uriah Heep the enchanting Dora and the magnificent Mr Macawber - a character much like Dickens' own father. <br><br>Also in Puffin Classics:<br><i>Great Expectations [abridged]</i><br><i>A Tale of Two Cities [abridged]<br>A Christmas Carol [unabridged]</i><br><i>Oliver Twist [unabridged]</i></p> <p>Charles Dickens' personal favourite <i>David Copperfield</i> is full of tragedy and comedy in equal measure and remains one of the most enduring and popular of Dickens' novels. Abridged for Puffin Classics.<br><br>Based in part on the author's own life <i>David Copperfield</i> is the epic story of a young man's journey of self-discovery - from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the memorable cast of characters he encounters along the way are his brutal stepfather Mr Murdstone; bubbly Nurse Peggotty; his brilliant but unworthy schoolmate Steerforth his eccentric aunt Betsy Trotwood the scheming clerk Uriah Heep the enchanting Dora and the magnificent Mr Macawber - a character much like Dickens' own father. <br><br>Also in Puffin Classics:<br><i>Great Expectations [abridged]</i><br><i>A Tale of Two Cities [abridged]<br>A Christmas Carol [unabridged]</i><br><i>Oliver Twist [unabridged]</i></p>