Category: Fiction: Literature

Copyright/published Year: by Everyman

ISBN: 0-460-87664-3

Binding: Paper

Description: Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick ì Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when ì it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking ì adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel ì about England getting into all sorts of mischief. Laugh-out-loud ì funny and endlessly entertaining, the book also reveals Dickens's ì burgeoning interest in the parliamentary system, lawyers, the ì Poor Laws, and the ills of debtors' prisons. As G. K. Chesterton ì noted, "Before [Dickens] wrote a single real story, he had a kind ì of vision . . . a map full of fantastic towns, thundering ì coaches, clamorous market-places, uproarious inns, strange and ì swaggering figures. That vision was Pickwick."

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