He wrote 15
novels, and the story goes, his favorite of these well-regarded children was David Copperfield, the 877 pages of
which I recently finished, and found myself moved to believe it one of my
favorites as well. Now, to be fair, it is
to date my only cover-to-cover Dickens experience, so calling it my favorite
Dickens is accurate by any standard. I
mean then it's become one of my all-time favorites, and one to which I may
return. It was touching, compelling,
poetic, and everything else a novel should be.
What's more, you'll find in the opening chapters maybe the most poignant
description of childhood in not only the Victorian canon, but in all of literature. It isn't surprising to find
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