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The novel david copperfield is writen by the great novelist of the Victorian Ag e ,Charles Dickens.

Of all the novels of Dickens such as Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol,Great Expectations and many more are memorable and remarkable. He says th at the novel David Copperfield is the best of all his works. The story traces th e life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity in which he has joined so me characters of his personal life. the novel is largely autobiographical and sh ows an imaginative understanding of the child's point of view David was born at 12 'o'clock in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Eng land, in 1820, six months after the death of his father in the month of March. D avid spends his early years with his mother and their housekeeper, Peggotty. Whe n he is seven years old, his mother re-marries Edward Murdstone. David is given good reason to dislike his stepfather and has similar feelings for Murdstone's s ister Jane, who moves into the house soon afterwards. Murdstone thrashes David f or falling behind in his studies. Following one of these thrashings, David bites him and soon afterwards is sent away to a boarding school, Salem House, with a ruthless headmaster, Mr. Creakle. There he befriends James Steerforth and Tommy Traddles. David returns home for the holidays to learn that his mother has given birth to a baby boy. Shortly after David returns to Salem House, his mother and her baby die and David returns home immediately. Peggotty marries a man named Mr Barkis. Murdstone sends David to work in a factory in London, of which Murdstone is a jo int owner. Copperfield's landlord, Wilkins Micawber, is sent to debtors' prison (the King's Bench Prison) and remains there for several months before being rele ased and moving to Plymouth. No one remains to care for David in London, so he d ecides to run away. He walks from London to Dover, bearing all difficulties where he finds his only relative, his unmarried, eccentric aunt Betsey Trotwood. She agrees to raise him , despite Murdstone's attempt to regain custody of David. David's aunt renames h im "Trotwood Copperfield" and addresses him as "Trot", and it becomes one of sev eral names to which David answers in the course of the novel.As David grows to a dulthood, a variety of characters enter, leave, and re-enter his life. These inc lude Peggotty and her family, including her orphaned niece "Little Emily", who m oves in with them and charms the young David. David's romantic but self-serving school friend, Steerforth, seduces and dishonours Little Em'ly, precipitating th e novel's greatest tragedy, and his landlord's daughter Agnes Wickfield, becomes his confidante. Micawber is painted sympathetically even as the narrator deplores his financial ineptitude. Micawber, like Dickens' own father, is briefly imprisoned for insolv ency.The major characters eventually get some measure of what they deserve, and few narrative threads are left hanging. Peggotty's brother Han safely transports Emily to a new life in Australia, accompanied by the widowed Mrs. Gummidge and the Micawbers. All eventually find security and happiness in their adopted count ry. David marries the beautiful but nave Dora Spenlow, who dies after failing to recover from a miscarriage early in their marriage. David then searches his soul and marries the sensible Agnes, who had always loved him and with whom he finds true happiness. David and Agnes then have at least four children, including a d aughter named after his aunt Betsey Trotwood.

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