As previously mentioned, David Copperfield is one of my favorite books of all time. Or at least, it was when I read it like, twenty years ago, but I continue to list it as being in my top five. Perhaps like me, reading Demon Copperhead gave you the itch to read or re-read David Copperfield, so here is our chance! We can do the old compare and contrast, bildungsroman to bildungsroman, though if you want to come and didn't read Demon, you are invited as well.

So why is this a Bonus Book? Because it weighs in at a whopping 882 pages! Yeesh. I'm giving you more than two months to get through it, and while it fits our Classic Summer Reading theme, I'll have a second Classic this summer for those of you not ready to commit to reading this absolutely wonderful beast of a book.

From Goodreads: David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his brilliant, but ultimately unworthy school-friend James Steerforth; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble, yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora Spenlow; and the magnificently impecunious Wilkins Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations. In David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of the most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.

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Bonus Book: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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