Written by a leading Dickens scholar, this key to the beloved storyteller's works first appeared in 1872. The definitive reference, it covers every novel, short story, play, and poem. In addition to extensive quotations from the original works, it features 26 illustrations and an Index to Characters with 1,899 entries. Reprint of the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1900 edition.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Based on the author's own life, this epic traces David's progress from his mother's sheltering arms to boarding-school and sweatshop to the rewards of friendship, romance, and self-discovery in his vocation as a writer.
