David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens. Part III.

David Copperfield is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. Published in 1850, The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first of Dickens novels to be written as such a narration.

The story follows the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David's father had died six months before he was born, and seven years later, his mother remarries but David and his step-father don’t get on and he is sent to boarding school.

As David settles into life we are taken along with him and meet a dazzling array of characters, some of whom we will never forget and some of whom we won't want to remember!

Called "the triumph of the art of Dickens", it marks a turning point for his literary works, separating the novels of youth and those of maturity. (From Wikipedia).