David Copperfield (novel)

David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to be published on any account) by Charles Dickens, first published in 1850. Like most of his other works, it originally appeared in serial form (published in monthly installments). Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens's own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels. It is also Dickens's "favourite child".

Publication

Like most of Charles Dickens's novels, David Copperfield was published in 19 monthly one-shilling installments, containing 32 pages of text and two illustrations by Phiz, with the last being a double-number:

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• I - May 1849 (chapters 1-3);
• II - June 1849 (chapters 4-6);
• III - July 1849 (chapters 7-9);
• IV - August 1849 (chapters 10-12);
• V - September 1849 (chapters 13-15);
• VI - October 1849 (chapters 16-18);
• VII - November 1849 (chapters 19-21);
• VIII - December 1849 (chapters 22-24);
• IX - January 1850 (chapters 25-27);
• X - February 1850 (chapters 28-31);
• XI - March 1850 (chapters 32-34);
• XII - April 1850 (chapters 35-37);
• XIII - May 1850 (chapters 38-40);
• XIV - June 1850 (chapters 41-43);
• XV - July 1850 (chapters 44-46);
• XVI - August 1850 (chapters 47-50);
• XVII - September 1850 (chapters 51-53);
• XVIII - October 1850 (chapters 54-57);
• XIX-XX - November 1850 (chapters 58-64).