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.本书是狄更斯的半自传体小说，也是他本人最为偏爱的作品。这部长达八十余万言的长篇巨著，涵盖了最为广泛的社会生活内容，在世界文学史上占有重要地位。列夫托尔斯泰曾将它与《圣经》并列，誉之为“一切英国小说中最好的一部”。