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The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

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In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of fiction's most endearing and memorable characters, starting with the 'illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded' Samuel Pickwick himself. It is a rollicking tour de force through an England on the brink of the Victorian era. Reform of government, justice and commercial life are imminent, as are rail travel, social convulsion and the death of deference, but Pickwick sails through on a tide of delirious adventure, fortifying us for the future - whatever it might throw at us.

This Macmillan Collector's Library edition is illustrated by H. K. Browne ('Phiz'), with an afterword by Ned Halley.

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PublisherPan Macmillan
Release dateSep 8, 2016
ISBN9781509831388
The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The Pickwick Papers had me cracking up to myself all the way through. I hadn't heard of this piece by Dickens until I read Little Women, where the girls are a part of the Pickwick Club and read little writings of their own. I have no clue how I discovered the connection (perhaps after watching the movie and doing a Google search), but I quickly grabbed a copy of the book to read it and fell into all of its nonsense.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The language is vital, the cast of characters is great, the beginnings of an interest in the issues of the industrial revolution is starting, altogether this is a wonderful book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Very droll, highly entertaining.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Dickens' first novel, and it shows a little in the beginning, I think. A very slow start. Throughout the novel there is the convention of the author speaking to the reader, commenting on the action. Quite old fashioned.It's a series of anecdotes and tales, loosely linked, but it improves greatly as it progresses. I think Dickens was learning his craft, and getting better at it, as he went along.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The best book ever about the immortality of donkeys and page-boys.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of Dickens' most lighthearted works. Laugh-out-loud funny at times.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    i think this was the first dickens i'd read and was surprised i enjoyed it so much, went on to read more after that.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book describes the adventures of a newly retired wealthy businssman, Mr Pickwick. He, his fellow members of the Pickwick club, and his servant Sam set out in search of adventure. The book is very well written, quite funny, and was a very enjoyable read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Hilarious in parts.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The strange thing with Pickwick is that, although I enjoyed it a lot whilst actually reading, I wasn't desperate to get back to it in between. I think it's because it's so very episodic (far more so than Dickens' other works), and because it takes a while for the characters to establish themselves. It's fascinating to trace the origins of a lot of JKJerome's humour in it - parts are so very like Three Men in a Boat
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Definitely not one of Dickens' best works. I actually could only get through about a third, maybe less, of it. It was a little bit too scattered--there's a cast of characters common to each chapter but no over-arching plot which I did not like.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved this book. It presented me with humor, both broad (Mr. Pickwick and the lady in the yellow curl papers) and more subtle ("Ode to an Expiring Frog" by Mrs. Leo Hunter, anyone?) and also managed to discuss with pathos more serious issues (debtors in Fleet Prison). The characters were memorable. To tell the truth, I now have a bit of a crush on Mr. Sam Weller. To top it all off the ending was happy. What could be better?
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I agree with Roald Dahl -- this book alone is proof that Dickens was a genius. Until I read this I was not aware of how much Wodehouse owed to Dickens. Seriously, though, it's basically a series of short stories loosely linked with a pasted-together plot, but the stories are, by and large, absolutely hilarious. It does slow down a bit with the debtor's prison preachiness, but hey, it's Dickens, you've gotta expect a bit of that. A great, great read.
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    5/5
    I believe this was my favorite book in ninth grade. Once through the first chapter I laughed through the whole book.
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    5/5
    A top read: witty and enjoyable
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What can I say about this book and this performance? Spectacular! Classic Dickens, with classic Prebble narration, it doesn't get better than this.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    LIght-hearted and delightful.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    The only Dickens novel that I have never been able to finish.

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