A Christmas Carol. In Prose.
Author
Charles Dickens
Frequently Cited
“MARLEY was dead: to begin with”
“I wear the chain I forged in life”
“God bless us every one”
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”
David Copperfield is the first-person autobiography of a novelist looking back on his life. David is born at Blunderstone in Suffolk six months after his father's death, on a night when his formidable great-aunt Betsey Trotwood storms out on learning he is not a girl.