Offers discussions on Dickens' David Copperfield including the work's influence, historical context, and critical reception as well as a chronology, bibliography, and index. David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone;...