David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics) puppet Phyllis Tickle has been reporting

Phyllis Tickle has been reporting on religion for Publishers Weekly for many years and is currently Contributing Editor in Religion for the journal

a small boy

Basbanes has done the great American poet a great service

[It] ought to be required reading in every classroom

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Penguin Clothbound Classics) puppet Phyllis Tickle has been reportingDickens' great coming of age novel, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition This is the novel Dickens regarded as his "favourite child" and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep,