The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: (Modern Library 204)
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, [1940s]. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean unmarked copy.
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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- Bookseller
- Great Northern Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11441
- Title
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1940s]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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