David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I re-read this 1100 page novel in preparation for April's book club theme.  I was reading Jane Smiley's "Charles Dickens" when I realized I really should read him,too.  Now I must have taught this novel somewhere along the way, or studied it, because the characters were very familiar - David, Peggotty, Steerforth, Dora, Agnes Wickfield et al.  I enjoyed the novel more as an older adult, and constantly marvelled at the complexity of the writing, the fact that it was serialized, and that Dickens wrote this in long-hand!