The Personal History of David Copperfield (The Heritage Press)

xvi, 821 pp. Original cloth, gilt titles, maroon borders, red publisher's slipcase. Introduction entitled How This Book Came to Be by John T. Winterich. Color frontispiece, seven other color plates, and black-and-white drawings by John Austen. Based on the author's own tumultuous journey from boy to man, this epic traces young David's progress from his mother's sheltering arms to the miseries of boarding-school and sweatshop and the rewards of friendship, romance, and self-discovery in his vocation as a writer.