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David CopperfieldOn the coverRamsgate Sands, William Powell Frith, 1851-1854
David Copperfield
The life of David Copperfield, from an infancy shattered by a cruel stepfather, through hardship, school, and first loves, to the making of a writer. Dickens's most personal novel, teeming with unforgettable friends and villains.
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The warmest of the great coming-of-age novels, a whole life lived on the page, with a cast you carry forever. Dickens at his most tender and most human.
SettingVictorian England, 1820s–40s
Early-Victorian England of coaching inns, debtors' prisons, and self-made fortunes, where a resourceful orphan might rise or sink on luck, character, and the kindness of strangers.