Personal History of David Copperfield

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Personal History of David copperfield was issued in monthly numbers, beginning In May, 1849, and extending to November, 1850. The circulation averaged about twenty-five thousand copies a month. After it was completed, it attained a popularity unexampled among Dickens's novels, with the single exception of Pickwick, that gentleman, and his friends and associates, maintaining a steady preeminence of popularity over all the succeeding characters that Dickens created. To the present moment The Pickwick Papers is the most salable of all the author s books.