David Copperfield / Charles Dickens, 891 pp.

Not my favorite Dickens, but I still loved this.  For me the flaw here is Agnes, too perfect to be real.  Later heroines such as Esther Summerson (Bleak House) and Lizzie Hexam (Our Mutual Friend) are very good but imperfect, which makes for much better reading.

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