David Copperfield

It is a young boy's passion to grow up to be a respectable, learned and useful member of the society. His hard work, courage, honesty and senisibility take him to heights despite harsh opposing winds. This novel is a beautiful blend of repeated tragedies, cunningness and well disguised evil on one hand, and purity of heart, passion, and perseverance on the other. It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody cares for Dickens heroines, least of all for Dora, but take it all in al,l this book is enjoyed by young people more than any other of the great novelist. After having read this you will wish to read Nicholas Nickleby for its mingling of pathos and humor, Martin Chuzzlewit for its pictures of American life as seen through English eyes, and Pickwick Papers for its crude but boisterous humor.