The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, Charles, 1812-18702003
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This was the comic masterpiece that carried the 24-year-old Dickens to fame as it appeared in monthly instalments in 1836-7. It records the 'perambulations, perils, travels, adventures' of the Pickwick Club's members. 'One of my life's greatest tragedies is to have already read Pickwick Papers - I can't go back and read it for the first time' Fernando PessoaFew first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers - a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickens's pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Mark Wormald
Main title:
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club / Charles Dickens.
Author:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, authorWormald, Mark, editor, writer of introduction
Edition:
[New ed.] / edited and with an introduction and notes by Mark Wormald.
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 1999.
Collation:
xxxv, 800 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
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Variant title:
Other title: Pickwick papersCover title: Pickwick papers
Notes:
Cover and spine title: The Pickwick papers.Includes bibliographical references (p. xxviii-xxix).
ISBN:
9780140436112 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.8FIC
Language:
English
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BRN:
1553669
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