Save when you buy the DVD and Book together DVD The most autobiographical of Charles Dickens' work, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells the moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families. Starring Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins. Also starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone). Special Features: Dickens' Favorite Child - A behind the scenes look at the creation of David Copperfield. Book David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. In David Copperfield--the novel he described as his "favorite child"--Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure.