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This journey from innocence to experience by the portly hero and his mentor, though it contains darker hints, is ultimately optimistic about human nature. This was the book which carried the 24-year-old Dickens to fame and created characters who have become part of the English mythology.
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"Dickens was one of the greatest writers of English...unforgettable characters. I was lying in hospital one time and I thought I'd never laugh again but this book changed that" (Simon Callow)
"My father, who left school at 15, was a Dickens enthusiast, and encouraged me to read his books when I was a boy. My favourite was The Pickwick Papers and every Christmas Eve, for several years, I used to reread the chapters about Christmas at Dingley Dell as a ritualistic preparation for the eagerly awaited holiday" (David Lodge Guardian)
"Dickens writes as though he were talking to us after dinner, in turns funny, bitter, eloquent, and sad" (John Mortimer Daily Mail)
"If I must choose only one Dickens then it's his first novel. It's wonderfully funny, kind and good-natured - just like dear Mr Pickwick himself" (Edwina Currie)
"I was instantly swept up in Dickens' exploding world of eccentrics and grotesques, at the heart of which a hige affection for mankind" (Simon Callow Good Housekeeping)
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"My father, who left school at 15, was a Dickens enthusiast, and encouraged me to read his books when I was a boy. My favourite was The Pickwick Papers and every Christmas Eve, for several years, I used to reread the chapters about Christmas at Dingley Dell as a ritualistic preparation for the eagerly awaited holiday" (David Lodge Guardian)
"Dickens writes as though he were talking to us after dinner, in turns funny, bitter, eloquent, and sad" (John Mortimer Daily Mail)
"If I must choose only one Dickens then it's his first novel. It's wonderfully funny, kind and good-natured - just like dear Mr Pickwick himself" (Edwina Currie)
"I was instantly swept up in Dickens' exploding world of eccentrics and grotesques, at the heart of which a hige affection for mankind" (Simon Callow Good Housekeeping)
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0140862501
- ISBN 13 9780140862508
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