"Het leven en de lotgevallen van David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens is a novel published in 1849-1850. This bildungsroman follows David from infancy to maturity through Victorian England's harsh realities. After his mother's tragic remarriage to the cruel Murdstone, young David endures abuse, boarding school hardships, and child labor in London. Fleeing to his eccentric aunt, he begins a painful climb toward respectability, confronting prostitution, class inequality, and personal betrayals. Along the way, treacherous figures like Uriah Heep threaten those David loves most. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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