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

816 pp. 8vo. Original full dark brown leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). "'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."