David Copperfield by Charles Dickens [ILLUSTRATED HARDCOVER] 1980 • The Franklin Library

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens with illustrations by Paul Degen 

LEATHER BOUND COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1980] THE FRANKLIN LIBRARY

*Luxury illustrated edition bound with dark brown leather, gilded cover and edges, and raised bands on spine.  Contains full color paintings by Paul Degen.

Book is in excellent condition.  Light wear.

Reads like new.

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.

In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.