Paperback. Pub Date :2012-05-31 Pages: 1008 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books 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 showDickenss epic . exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfields extraordinary journey through life. as he encounters villains. saviours. eccentrics and grotesques. including the wicked Mr Murdstone. stout-hearted Peggotty. formidable Betsey Trotwood. impecunious Micawber and odious Uriah Heep.Dickenss great Bildungsroman (based. in part. on his own boyhood. and which he described as a favourite child) is a work filled with life. both comic and tragic.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English. from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the ...