- Published: 15 December 2000
- ISBN: 9780679783411
- Imprint: Random House US Group
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 896
- RRP: $22.99
David Copperfield

















'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show'
Hugely admired by Tolstoy, David Copperfield is the novel that draws most closely from Charles Dickens's own life. Its eponymous hero, orphaned as a boy, grows up to discover love and happiness, heartbreak and sorrow amid a cast of eccentrics, innocents, and villains. Praising Dickens's power of invention, Somerset Maugham wrote: "There were never such people as the Micawbers, Peggotty and Barkis, Traddles, Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Dick, Uriah Heep and his mother. They are fantastic inventions of Dickens's exultant imagination...you can never quite forget them."
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates, in addition to new explanatory notes.
- Published: 15 December 2000
- ISBN: 9780679783411
- Imprint: Random House US Group
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 896
- RRP: $22.99