It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creaUnes of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless,indeed,I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.
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Growing up is never easy--especially if your name happens to be David Copperfield. Orphaned as an infant, David must suffer the privations and cruelties of his evil stepfather, Mr. Murdstone--who packs David away to a workhouse at the age of ten! A trusting but vulnerable boy and practically alone in the world, I)avid finds himself time.after time at the mercy of a rogue's gallery of characters: the dashing but deceitfid Steerforth, the detestable clerk Uriah tleep,and, last but not leASt, the beautiful but ditzy Dora.With friends like these it's a miracle that David grows up at all！
FOREWORD
I AM BORN
I OBSERVE
I HAVE A CHANGE
I-FALL INTO DISGRACE
I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF
ACQUAINTANCE
MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE
HAPPY AFTERNOON
I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM
PROVIDED FOR
I BEGIN .LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT
AND DON'T LIKE IT
LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT
No BETTER, I FORM A GREAT
RESOLUTION
THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND
ABOUT ME
I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES
THAN ONE
XVII SOMEBODY TURNS UP
XVIII A RETROSPECT
XIX I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
XX STEERFORTH'S HOME
XXI LITTLE EM'LY
XXII SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PROPLE
XXIII I CORROBORATE MR. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSION
XXIV MY FIRST DISSIPATION
XXV GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
XXVI I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
XXVII TOMMY TRADDLES
XXVIII MR. MICAWBER' S GAUNTLET
XXIX I VISIT STEERFORTH AT HIS HOME, AGAIN
XXX A LOSS
XXXI A GREATER LOSS
XXXII THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
XXXIII BLISSFUL
XXXIV MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
XXXV DEPRESSION
XXXVI 'ENTHUSIASM
XXXVII A LIITLE COLD WATER
XXXVIII A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
XXXIX WICKFIELD AND HEEP
XL THE WANDERER
XLI DORA'S AUNTS
XLII MISCHIEF
XLIII ANOTHER PDTROSPECT
XLIV OUR HOUSEKEEPING
XLV MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
XLVI INTELLIGENCE
XLVII MARTHA
XLVIH DOMESTIC
XLIX I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
L MR. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
LI THE BEGINNING OF A LONGER JOURNEY
LII I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
LIII ANOTHER RETROSPECT
LIV MR. ]V[ICAWBER'S TRANSACTIONS
LV TEMPEST
LVI THE NEW WOUND, AND THE OLD
LVII THE ElmGRANTS
LVIII ABSENCE
LIX RETURN
LX AGNES
LXI I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PRNITENTS
LXII A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
LXIH A VISITOR
LXIV A LAST RETROSPECT
