Death and Mr. Pickwick
by Jarvis, Stephen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New in New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374139660
- ISBN 13
- 9780374139667
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New in New dust jacket. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine with spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Illustrated endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . 802 pages. Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book.The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his Cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour, a denizen of the back alleys and grimy courtyards where early nineteenth century London's printers and booksellers plied their cutthroat trade. When Seymour's publishers, after trying to match his magical etchings with a number of writers, settled on a young storyteller using the pen name Boz, The Pickwick Papers went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, outselling every other book besides the Bible and Shakespeare's plays. And Boz, as the young Charles Dickens signed his work, became, in the eyes of many, the most important writer of his time. The fate of Robert Seymour, Mr. Pickwick's creator, a very different story-one untold before now.Few novels deserve to be called magnificent. Death and Mr. Pickwick is one of them. .
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 609075
- Title
- Death and Mr. Pickwick
- Author
- Jarvis, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New in New dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374139660
- ISBN 13
- 9780374139667
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- FICTION, HISTORICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Historical;
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