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The Pickwick Papers Reissue Edition (Paperback)

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Dickens, Charles

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848 pages

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0140436111

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9780140436112)

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The Pickwick Papers explores the perils, travels, and adventures of the Pickwick Club's members: the founding chairman, former businessman and amateur scientist Mr. Pickwick; his trusted companion Sam Weller; the sportsman Winkle; the poet Snodgrass; and the lover Tracy Tupman. This Penguin Classic makes available the first volume edition of 1837 together with the original illustrations.

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supreme bele

Jun 5, 2012, 1:03 am

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A classic that I enjoyed start to finish. Great to be reminded of why Dickens is universally regarded as being one of the top twenty authors of all time . Yes it's his fi.. More details

A classic that I enjoyed start to finish. Great to be reminded of why Dickens is universally regarded as being one of the top twenty authors of all time . Yes it's his first novel, yes it was originally published in serial form, so it reads in nice complete thirty page blocks, many of which are comic set pieces. But when he sends you off on a detour to describe something, you know you can relax and go along for the ride--you are in the hands of a master, and you will be paid off. Nobody describes and establishes a minor character as lovingly, efficiently, or indelibly as Dickens. I was sorry when it ended. Hide details

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supremebele

Jun 5, 2012, 1:23 am

"The Pickwick Papers" is one of Dickens's earliest works, written when the author was a mere twenty-four years old. You wouldn't know his age by reading the story, though. "Pickwick" is a work that delivers healthy doses of sophisticated humor, keen observations on pressing social issues, romance, and a mature knowledge of human behavior. It's of course fiction, although Dickens presents the story as a true series of events documented by the "Pickwick Club," a social organization founded by retired businessman and all around merry fellow Samuel Pickwick. In the 1820s, Pickwick and several friends embark on a series of journeys through Southern England, a journey that lasts for roughly two years. Ostensibly, the businessman and his fellows take the trips to learn more about their country. Instead, their travels turn into a series of often hilarious events mixed with a few serious scrapes. Pickwick must constantly save individuals from the machinations of one Alfred Jingle, an itinerant scalawag with a penchant for wooing women for their money. In between these adventures, our hero must contend with a lawsuit filed by a former female employee who thought he wanted to marry her, save his friends from numerous imbroglios involving members of the opposite sex, survive a stay in a debtor's prison, and live through a couple hundred other adventures both major and minor. Hide details

jeet kawrani

Jun 5, 2012, 12:31 am

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This is the first book I'm reading for an independent study on Dickens. I don't intend to include all the books I'm covering for college.This book would be enough to make.. More details

This is the first book I'm reading for an independent study on Dickens. I don't intend to include all the books I'm covering for college.This book would be enough to make me say I love Charles Dickens...if it weren't for Nicholas Nickleby and Bleak House and...everything else he wrote. Hide details

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meekson hundoo

Aug 8, 2010, 9:30 am

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Charles Dickens was a famous English poet and novelist. “Pickwick papers” is a delightful and simple novel which ensures complete entertainment. One of the most impor.. More details

Charles Dickens was a famous English poet and novelist. “Pickwick papers” is a delightful and simple novel which ensures complete entertainment. One of the most important aspects of this book is that, it was written by Charles Dickens in 1836, when he was only 24 years old.
The storyline revolves around a wide range of incidents that occur in Mr. Samuel Pickwick and his friend’s lives. An associate known as the united Pickwikians, meet on a given day to decide upon the duty of their president, Samuel Pickwick. The association comes to a conclusion that Mr. Pickwick is to share his prudence, knowledge and learning with the utmost ardor for the benefit of mankind. A travelling branch of their association is formed known as the corresponding society of the Pickwick club, in which each member at their own cost could carry on their work as long as they pleased. At the end of the travel the members were supposed to send in their reports to the Pickwick club in London, based on what they observed and investigated.
“Pickwick Papers” has caught attention because it was Dickens first novel that was widely acclaimed by the public. There is a good deal of laughter in this book which is able to tickle the reader’s sense of humor.

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