The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Collectors Library Editions) - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190736028X ISBN 13: 9781907360282

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2011

Synopsis

The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens's first novel, and his comic masterpiece. 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 throws at us.

Illustrated by H K Browne 'Phiz', with an Afterword by Ned Halley.

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Review:

" No essay in fiction ever gave more incontestable assurance of genius. . . . Never, perhaps, was satire so large-hearted and so entertaining." -- George Gissing

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

"No essay in fiction ever gave more incontestable assurance of genius. . . . Never, perhaps, was satire so large-hearted and so entertaining."--George Gissing

No essay in fiction ever gave more incontestable assurance of genius. . . . Never, perhaps, was satire so large-hearted and so entertaining. George Gissing"

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'His greatest success' George Orwell

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 190736028X
• ISBN 13: 9781907360282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1080