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The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Penguin Classics) Book
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Foyles
'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
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TheBookPeople
The Pickwick Papers began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert Seymour. Following the success of Sketches by Boz, Dickens was recruited to compose the words which would accompany the illustrations. Dickens quickly made the project his own and created some of his most popular characters: Samuel Pickwick, and his companions Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman. At the height of its popularity The Pickwick Papers sold 40,000 copies a month and catapulted the 24 year old Dickens to fame.
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BookDepository
The Pickwick Papers : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140436112 : 0140436111 : 03 Jun 2005 : Charles Dickens' first published work, "The Pickwick Papers"" was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its colourful characters and farcical plot. Featuring the original illustrations, this title includes an introduction that discusses the genesis of ""The Pickwick Papers"" and the emergence of its central characters."
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Penguin
Penguin Classics give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens's novels, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens's life and notes that fill in the background to the book.
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Blackwell
Few books have ever been greeted with such excitement as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. This was the comic masterpiece that carried the 24-year-old Dickens to fame as it appeared in monthly instalments in 1836-7.This Penguin Classic...
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Waterstones
Includes a map of the Pickwickians' tours. This title covers topics ranging from the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtors' prison.
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Pickabook
Charles Dickens, Mark Wormald (Editor), Mark Wormald
- 0140436111
- 9780140436112
- Charles Dickens
- 24 February 2000
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 848
- New Ed
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