Description
Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci starring Dev Patel Tilda Swinton Hugh Laurie Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw Dickens’s epic exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfield’s extraordinary journey through life as he encounters villains saviours eccentrics and grotesques including the wicked Mr Murdstone stout-hearted Peggotty formidable Betsey Trotwood impecunious Micawber and odious Uriah Heep. Dickens’s great Bildungsroman (based in part on his own boyhood and which he described as a ‘favourite child’) is a work filled with life both comic and tragic.
