The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Oliver Twist [with] Uncommercial Traveller; The Personal History of David Copperfield; Great Expectations [with] Pictures from Italy, and American Notes; Dombey and Son; Barnaby Rudge and Edwin Drood; Nicholas Nickleby; Old Curiosity Shop [with] Master Humphrey's Clock and Miscellanies; Bleak House; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; Christmas Books [with] Tale of Two Cities and A Message from the Sea; Sketches by "Boz" [with] Hard Times [with] Reprinted Pieces; A Child's History of England Also a Complete Catalogue of Charles Dickens' Writings
by Dickens, Charles
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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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- 000011110
- Title
- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Oliver Twist [with] Uncommercial Traveller; The Personal History of David Copperfield; Great Expectations [with] Pictures from Italy, and American Notes; Dombey and Son; Barnaby Rudge and Edwin Drood; Nicholas Nickleby; Old Curiosity Shop [with] Master Humphrey's Clock and Miscellanies; Bleak House; Little Dorrit; Our Mutual Friend; Christmas Books [with] Tale of Two Cities and A Message from the Sea; Sketches by "Boz" [with] Hard Times [with] Reprinted Pieces; A Child's History of England Also a Complete Catalogue of Charles Dickens' Writings
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good to Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1876
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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