Dawid Copperfield. Tom 1 by Charles Dickens

The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger

The young narrator recounts his precarious childhood: born to a gentle mother and raised by loyal servants, he suffers the harsh control of a cruel stepfather and his stern sister, endures a bleak boarding school where he forms important friendships, and after his mother’s death is sent to work in a London bottling warehouse. Desperate, he runs away to seek out his eccentric great-aunt Betsey Trotwood, who takes him in, becomes his guardian, and begins to restore his prospects by arranging for his education and a chance at a new life.

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