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David Copperfield
David Copperfield
Nov 30, 2025 4:31 AM

Author:H.K. Browne,Charles Dickens,Jeremy Tambling,Jeremy Tambling

David Copperfield

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw

'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo Tolstoy

In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant but unworthy school-friend Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; and the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jeremy Tambling

Reviews

...Ball has built an action-packed, often erotic and always sensual epic-adventure

—— Chicago Sun-Times

I couldn't put it down and thought about it for days

—— Jean M. Auel, bestselling author of the Earth's Children series

Boris Pasternak did it. So did James Clavell, James Michener and Jean Auel. Like them, Ball has built an action-packed, often erotic and always sensual epic adventure

—— Chicago Sun Times

The greatest poet of the 20th century

—— Gabriel García Márquez

He was that rare thing - a public poet, and a great one, held in deep affection by every layer of Chilean society. For the skill that earned him such esteem was his ability to find beauty in ordinary things

—— Guardian

He has the mingled richness and discipline of a string quartet

—— Adam Feinstein , Guardian

A witty novel about love

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