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David Copperfield

David Copperfield enjoys his early childhood with his mother and their kindly servant, Peggotty. But when his mother marries the cruel Mr. Murdstone, he is sent away to Salem House, a run-down London boarding school where the boys are beaten by Mr. Creakle. Here David befriends Tommy Traddles and the aristocratic James Steerforth. Shortly after she gives birth to a son by Mr. Murdstone, however, David's mother dies, and David is pulled out of the school and forced to go to work at Murdstone's wine warehouse. He lives with the impoverished Micawber family, whom he grows to love, but when Micawber is sent to debtor's prison, David runs away from his work and goes to live with his indomitable great-aunt, Miss Betsey Trotwood. Miss Trotwood adopts David and sends him to Dr. Strong's school in Canterbury, where he thrives.

David lives in Canterbury with a lawyer named Mr. Wickfield (whose scheming clerk, Uria


h Heep, takes advantage of Wickfield's alcoholism to secure himself a position as partner in the firm) and Wickfield's daughter Agnes, with whom David forms a close and lasting friendship. When David finishes at Dr. Strong's school, he goes to work at the law firm of Mr. Spenlow and Jorkins, where he falls in love with and becomes engaged to Dora Spenlow.

In 1849, Dickens set to the task of writing a novel based on his early life experiences; David Copperfield, perhaps his most celebrated book, is the result. The book is not an autobiography, but it draws heavily on Dickens' own life, both in incident and in character. David, like Dickens, is forced to work as a child, also by pasting labels onto bottles; like Dickens, he becomes first a law clerk, then a court reporter, and finally a successful novelist. Mr. Micawber is a brilliant satirical look at Dickens' father, an infinitely likable man who simply

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