![]() ![]() The story contains some of the most memorable characters in English literature, including the unctuous Uriah Heep and the ever-optimistic Mr. It’s still a good book.”ĭickens’ favorite of his own works, and his most autobiographical, David Copperfield records the struggles of a young man in early Victorian England, following him from childhood to young manhood. But about three years later I really looked into the kind of thing that David Copperfield showed me was there, and I’ve always prized that experience of having read David Copperfield as my first real book. ![]() I didn’t then and there settle down and read a lot of Dickens. ![]() For example, by the time I had read David Copperfield, I knew David better than anybody I’d ever known, including myself, and I realized that that was a world that was available to me. And I read it, and I knew then, without doing anything about it or making any resolution over it, that I had entered into a world that was in many ways better than the world I or anybody else lived in. And then when I was 11 or 12, as a Sunday school prize I was given a copy of David Copperfield, which was an enormous book to my mind it was 300, 400, 500 pages long. First I read the Bobbsey Twins, then the Rover Boys, and Tom Swift and Tarzan. ![]()
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