David Copperfield

David Copperfield

[Read by Ralph Cosham]<br><br> <i>David Copperfield</i> is the timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to live and love in a cutthroat, indifferent adult world. It firmly embraces all the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood. <br><br> Of all Charles Dickens' novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time. Certainly Copperfield's experiences--his early rejection, child labor in a warehouse, experience as a journalist, and final success as a novelist--are strikingly similar to Dickens' own. It is little wonder that Dickens said of it, ''Of all my books I like this the best . . . Like many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield.''