讲到英国文学，不能不提到狄更斯；讲到狄更斯，不能不提到David Coperfield（《大卫·考坡菲》），俄国文豪列夫•托尔斯泰曾把它和《圣经》并列，誉之为"一切英国小说中最好的一部"……When it refers to the English literature, you can not fail to mention Dickens and his work David Copperfield. Russian writer Leo Tolstoy once put this book and the Bible side by side, and appreciated them together as "the best one of all British fictions". Indeed it should be regarded as a rare classic in the history of literary……

作者：Charles Dickens(查尔斯·狄更斯），1812-1870，十九世纪英国最伟大的现实主义作家。