David Copperfield

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” Thus opens The Personal History of David Copperfield the Younger, the novel which Charles Dickens claimed as his ‘favourite child.’ In tracing the life of his narrator, David Copperfield, many critics have claimed that Dickens was depicting his own life story. From the perplexities of childhood, through the sexual and emotional upheaval of adolescence, to the discovery of his own vocation as a writer, David’s narrative underscores the complexities of human nature.