David Copperfield

First published in 1849-50, this novel is David Copperfield's own account of his life from a Suffolk childhood. After his mother's remarriage to the harsh Mr Murdstone, David is sent to a London warehouse, runs away to his aunt Betsey Trotwood in Dover, and grows into a parliamentary reporter and novelist. The narrative gathers the Micawbers, Uriah Heep, Steerforth, Little Em'ly, and Agnes Wickfield around questions of work, debt, seduction, and what a gentleman owes people weaker than himself. It is a first-person Bildungsroman of Victorian schooling, labour, and marriage, told as memory rather than as a mystery.

Bound in cream cloth printed with a montage of Keeping’s illustrations from the text, with dark red spine-label. Dark red endleaves. Dark red slipcase, with Dickens’s signature in gold.