TY - BOOK AU - Dickens,Charles TI - David Copperfield T2 - Penguin classics SN - 9780140439441 AV - PR4558.a2 PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - Boys KW - Fiction KW - Orphans KW - Young men KW - Novelists KW - Stepfathers KW - Child labor KW - England KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Bildungsromans N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - A story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth ER -