DAVID COPPERFIELD- CHARLES DICKENS

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben WhishawDickens’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.