Teacher Guide

David Copperfield Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who published numerous novels, novellas, short stories, plays, and nonfiction works over the course of his career. Some of his other famous novels include Oliver Twist (1837-1839), Bleak House (1852-1853), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1860-1861).

Other famous Victorian novelists include George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and William Makepeace Thackeray.

As a classic bildungsroman, David Copperfield can be compared to other examples of the genre from the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries. Some examples include Tom Jones (1749), Jane Eyre (1847), The Catcher in the Rye (1951), and The Kite Runner (2003).

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