DEATH AND MR. PICKWICK; A Novel

Jarvis, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0374139660 / ISBN 13: 9780374139667

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2015

About this Item

SIGNED & INSCRBED Bookplate by the Author, thick 8vo, black boards with silver lettering on spine, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with cartoon Pickwick standing astride an opened book, circular gold seal stating "Autographed Copy," endpapers reproduce B&W lithos used to illustrate Pickwick Papers, [xii] + 802 pages. SIGNED & INSCRIBED "If only one could do as the Pickwickians did!" Splendid debut novel by Jarvis reviving the Dickensian-Pickwickian world published by the distinguished literary house of FSG. Exceptional Condition!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEATH AND MR. PICKWICK; A Novel
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374139660
• ISBN 13: 9780374139667
• Binding: Boards
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature & Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Death and Mr. Pickwick is a vast, richly imagined, Dickensian work about the rough-and-tumble world that produced an author who defined an age. Like Charles Dickens did in his immortal novels, Stephen Jarvis has spun a tale full of preposterous characters, shaggy-dog stories, improbable reversals, skulduggery, betrayal, and valor-all true, and all brilliantly brought to life in his unputdownable book.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, featuring the fat and lovable Mr. Pickwick and his Cockney manservant, Sam Weller, began as a series of whimsical sketches, the brainchild of the brilliant, erratic, misanthropic illustrator named Robert Seymour, a denizen of the back alleys and grimy courtyards where early nineteenth-century London's printers and booksellers plied their cutthroat trade. When Seymour's publishers, after trying to match his magical etchings with a number of writers, settled on a young storyteller using the pen name Boz, The Pickwick Papers went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, outselling every other book besides the Bible and Shakespeare's plays. And Boz, as the young Charles Dickens signed his work, became, in the eyes of many, the most important writer of his time. The fate of Robert Seymour, Mr. Pickwick's creator, a very different story-one untold before now.

Few novels deserve to be called magnificent. Death and Mr. Pickwick is one of them.

About the Author

Stephen Jarvis was born in Essex, England. Following graduate studies at Oxford University, he quickly tired of his office job and began doing unusual things every weekend and writing about them for The Daily Telegraph. These activities included learning the flying trapeze, walking on red-hot coals, getting hypnotized to revisit past lives, and entering the British Snuff-Taking Championship. Death and Mr. Pickwick is his first novel. He lives in Berkshire, England.