10 Works of Fiction That Sustained Young David Copperfield

Before being sent off to school David used to love to read these in a room next to his bedroom, books left by his father. I confess I have only read two or three of these.

1. Roderick Random (Tobias Smollet|)
2. Peregrine Pickle (Tobias Smollet|)
3. Humphrey Clinker (Tobias Smollett)
4. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
5. The Vicar of Wakefield (Oliver Goldsmith)
6. Don Quixote (Miguel Cervantes trans Tobias Smollett)
7. Gil Blas (Alain-René Lesage trans Tobias Smollett)
8. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
9. The Arabian Nights
10. The Tales of the Genii (James Ridley)

10 Writer Doctors of medicine

1. Dr Luke the Evangelist
2. Dannie Abse
3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. A J Cronin
5. Alexander McCall Smith
6. William Carlos Williams
7. Oliver Goldsmith
8. Tobias Smollett
9. Robert Bridges
10. Anton Chekhov