Author: Dickens, Charles & Groome, W H C [illustrator]
Title: David Copperfield
Description: Collins, nd c 1920, reprint. Cloth, G+. 876pp, b/w frontis, illustrated title ( by Hary Furniss ), 14b/w plates, cloth a little grubby. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Dickens' own personal favourite of his works, telling the story of Copperfield and his life which many see as a mirror of Dickens own. Tolstoy considered chapter 55 [ the Shipwreck & Ham's death ] as the benchmark from which all other works of fiction should be measured.

Keywords: literature, fiction, dickens