The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens
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About This Item
Little, Brown and Company. Acceptable. Boston, n.d., circa 1911; red leather-like cloth covered boards; no dust jacket; some wear at edges and corners of cover; wear at front and rear joint; tear in front joint (1 inch long); cover slightly soiled; some rubbing on cover; tide marks on edges of text block; front and rear hinge weak; rear hinge somewhat cracked; names of previous owners written on front endpapers; a few gutter gaps throughout text; Interior clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall; 419 pages.
Synopsis
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers ) is the first novel published by Charles Dickens. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club catapulted the 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle &, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr. Pickwick, & his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters & incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humor & literary invention The novel was published in 19 issues over 20 months by Chapman and Hall, London in 1836. After the publication the widow of illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr. Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book.
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- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens
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