David Copperfield - Signet Classics Author:Charles Dickens The year before he died Charles Dickens wrote of David Copperfield, "Of all my books, I like this the best." The story of the abandoned waif who develops a "disciplined heart" through challenging encounters with distress and misfortune is a supreme example of Dickens' skill as a novelist. In this great work plots and counterplots are woven into ... more »one intricate, grand design...and a huge gallery of individual characters comes alive. The malignantly treacherous Uriah Heep, the jovial nurse Peggotty, the foolishly innocent Dora, the improvident Mr. Micawber, the egotistic and charming Steerforth--these stand among literature's most remembered people.
The story of David Copperfield is supposedly the closest to an autobiography that Dickens ever wrote. It remains my 2nd favourite after Great Expectations.