小说讲述了这样一个故事：少年大卫·科波菲尔是个遗腹子，继父对他和母亲横加虐待，他的童年生活充满了艰辛。母亲去世后，大卫沦为了一个孤儿，他找到了有着一副菩萨心肠的姨婆，在她的监护下开始了新的生活。在大卫的成长过程中，他体会到了亲情与友爱，也经历了风波与伤痛，最终成为了一名成功的作家，并与至亲爱人幸福地结合。本书为纯英文版本。

CHAPTER 1 I Am Born

CHAPTER 2 I Observe

CHAPTER 3 I Have a Change

CHAPTER 4 I Fall into Disgrace

CHAPTER 5 I Am Sent Away from Home

CHAPTER 6 I Enlarge My Circle of Acquaintance

CHAPTER 7 My‘First Halp’at Salem House

CHAPTER 8 My Holidays. Especially One Happy Afternoon

CHAPTER 9 I Have a Memorable Birthday

CHAPTER 10 I Become Neglected, and Am Provided For

CHAPTER 11 I Begin Life on My Own Account, and Don't Like It

CHAPTER 12 Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a Great Resolution

CHAPTER 13 The Sequel of My Resolution

CHAPTER 14 My Aunt Makes Up Her Mind About Me

CHAPTER 15 I Make Another Beginning

CHAPTER 16 I Am a New Boy in More Senses Than One

CHAPTER 17 Somebody Turns Up

CHAPTER 18 A Retrospect

CHAPTER 19 I Look about Me, and Make a Discovery

CHAPTER 20 Steerforth's Home

CHAPTER 21 Little Em'ly

CHAPTER 22 Some Old Scenes, and Some New People

CHAPTER 23 I Corroborate Mr.Dick, and Choose a Profession

CHAPTER 24 My First Dissipation

CHAPTER 25 Good and Bad Angels

CHAPTER 26 I Fall into Cqptivity

CHAPTER 28 Mr.Micawber's Gauntler

CHAPTER 29 I Visit Steerforth at His Home, Again

CHAPTER 30 A Loss

CHAPTER 31 A Greater Loss

CHAPTER 32 The Beginning of a Long Journey

CHAPTER 33 Blissful

CHAPTER 34 My Aunt Astonishes Me

CHAPTER 35 Depression

CHAPTER 36 Enthusiasm

CHAPTER 37 A Little Cold Water

CHAPTER 38 A Dissolution of Partnership

CHAPTER 39 Wickfield and Heep

CHAPTER 4O The Wanderer

CHAPTER 41 Dora's Aunts

CHAPTER 42 Mischief

CHAPTER 43 Another Retrospect

CHAPTER 44 Our Housekeeping

CHAPTER 45 Mr. Dick Fulfils My Aunt's Predictions

CHAPTER 46 Intelligence

CHAPTER 47 Martha

CHAPTER 48 Domestic

CHAPTER 49 I Am Involved in Mystery

CHAPTER 5O Mr. Peggotty's Dream Comes True

CHAPTER 51 The Beginning of a Longer Journey

CHAPTER 52 I Assist at an Explosion

CHAPTER 53 Another Retrospect

CHAPTER 54 Mr. Micawber's Transactions

CHAPTER 55 Tempest

CHAPTER 56 The New Wound, and the Old

CHAPTER 57 The Emigrants

CHAPTER 58 Absence

CHAPTER 59 Return

CHAPTER 60 Agnes

CHAPTER 6I I Am Shown Two Interesting Penitents

CHAPTER 62 A Light Shines on My Way

CHAttER 63 A Visitor

CHARTER 64 A Last Retrospect