My favorite Charles Dickens book is David Copperfield. I believe Dickens wanted it to be an autobiography.
It's the eighth novel by Dickens - I didn't realize that.
Yeah, it's great. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account). It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, and as a book in 1850.
The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends
Commenting on a 2007 edition, Charles de Lint called the novel "a great book," and "one of my favorite books," which on rereading he found "just as wonderful as I remembered it to be: beautifully written, the characters warmly drawn, the pages filled with conversations that run the gamut of the human condition." While he felt it "might seem quaint as it takes its time to tell its story," he noted "there's a reason that people still read Dickens and Austen,