The Personal History of David Copperfield (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

816 pp. 8vo. Full dark brown leather, gilt titles & decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Phiz. "'Of all my books, I like this the best.' So said Charles Dickens of David Copperfield, his most autobiographical novel, which incorporates large portions of a memoir that he had earlier abandoned. This celebrated coming-of-age story marks Dickens's initial use of a first-person narrator and includes two of his most memorable characters: the villainous and cunning Uriah Heep and Mr. Micawber, young David's penniless but amiable friend, whom Dickens based on his own father."