David Copperfield / Dickens, Charles

A young boy in 19th-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.

Presents Charles Dickens's 1850 novel that chronicles an English orphan boy's lessons in love, betrayal, loyalty, and forgiveness from birth to fatherhood; and includes explanatory notes, commentary from such figures as Virginia Woolf and George Orwell, and discussion questions.

An adaptation of the novel, abridged by Dickens for public readings. Tells the story of a young man, orphaned as a boy, growing up in nineteenth-century England.