David Copperfield is the quintessential novel by England’s most beloved novelist. Based in part on Dickens’s own life, it is the story of a young man’s journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

《大卫·科波菲尔》，即《大卫·考坡菲》，是狄更斯的半自传体小说，也是作者本人最为偏爱的作品。这部长达八十余万言的长篇巨著以思想开明的知识分子大卫为中心，通过书中各色人物和最为复杂严密的故事结构，表达了狄更斯的人道主义观点，在世界文学史上独树一帜。