## 7. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Unknown novel by little read author. (This could also have been Great Expectations or Oliver Twist, but Copperfield is the one where, for me, the disparate elements that make up the wonder of Dickens come together.)
Via Robot Wisdom [1], “Wesley Stace's top 10 books about children aimed at adults [2]”
Unknown novel?
Little read author?
I'm not sure what they teach for literature across the pond, but here we got Dickens up the wazoo! I remember reading A Christmas Carol [3] by Charles Dickens (at 100+ pages, this would be a “short story” by Mr. Dickens) and finding it okay, but I was also forcefed Great Expectations [4] in 9^th grade and hated it (and at 500+ pages, this would be a “novella [5]” for Mr. Dickens). But “little read author?”
I can only hope that Wesley Stace was being droll …
[1] http://www.robotwisdom.com/
[2] http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,6109,1510772,00.html
[3] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553212443/conmanlaborat-20
[4] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141439564/conmanlaborat-