David Copperfield Part 1

The journey of a young man from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to discovering his calling as a successful novelist is told in David Copperfield. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather Mr. Murdstone; his brilliant but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber one of literatures great comic creations. Dickens drew revealingly from his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works full of tragedy and comedy in equal measure in David Copperfield the book he referred to as his favourite child.