David Copperfield là một tiểu thuyết của Charles Dickens được xuất bản lần đầu tiên vào năm 1980. Nhiều chi tiết trong tác phẩm được chắt lọc từ chính cuộc đời của nhà văn, vì thế đây có lẽ là tác phẩm mang tính tự truyện đậm nét nhất trong kho tàng văn chương Charles Dickens. Trong Lời tựa sách ấn bản năm 1867, C. Dickens bộc bạch: “ như những bậc cha mẹ nâng niu con cái, tôi ôm ấp trong trái tim mình một đứa con tinh thần đặc biệt. Và tên của đứa bé là David Copperfield | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Prepared and Published by Ebd Preface to 1850 edition I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book in the first sensations of having finished it to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it is so recent and strong and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret -pleasure in the achievement of a long design regret in the separation from many companions -that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I love with personal confidences and private emotions. Besides which all that I could say of the Story to any purpose I have endeavoured to say in it. It would concern the reader little perhaps to know how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years imaginative task or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet I have nothing else to tell unless indeed I were to confess which might be of less moment still that no one can ever believe this Narrative in the reading more than I have believed it in the writing. Instead of looking back therefore I will look forward. I cannot close this Volume more agreeably to myself than with a hopeful glance towards the time when I shall again put forth my two green leaves once a month and with a faithful remembrance of the genial sun and showers that have fallen on these leaves of David Copperfield and made me happy. London October 1850. Ebd Preface to the Charles Dickens edition I remarked in the original Preface to this Book that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it in the first sensations of having finished it to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it was so recent and strong and my mind was so divided between pleasure and regret -pleasure in the .
