false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235763729m/229432.jpg 229432 167 ‘Rising rage and extreme bewilderment had swelled the noble breast of Mr Pickwick, almost to the bursting of his waistcoat’ Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as <b>The Pickwick Papers</b> – a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass, the lover Tupman, the sportsman Winkle and, above all, by that quintessentially English Quixote, Mr Pickwick, and his cockney Sancho Panza, Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election, via the Fleet debtor’s prison, characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickens’s pen, to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. This edition is based on the first volume edition of 1837, and includes the original illustrations. In his introduction, Mark Wormald discusses the genesis of <b>The Pickwick Papers</b> and the emergence of its central characters. 3315230 book 1837 The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Papers total:2248|5:615|4:722|3:630|2:222|1:59| 2248 8356 3774 190 5 3 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 05:44:01 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 08:38:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 11:33:41 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 13:59:53 -0700 2008 many more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Jun 25 06:21:22 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 15:30:49 -0700 2007

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Pickwick is Dickens' first novel, and the first few chapters do indeed come across as 'prentice work. This is...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 15:22:28 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 30 09:33:55 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 10 15:18:05 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 11:09:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 09:17:21 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 09:22:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 10 13:49:46 -0700 2007 Thu May 10 13:59:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Dec 14 17:38:05 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 23:56:06 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Thu Apr 17 14:09:32 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 13:50:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Nov 29 18:52:53 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 18:56:00 -0800 2008 4 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Apr 27 11:57:48 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 11:59:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Aug 12 22:17:19 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 22:20:36 -0700 2007 4 0 false true Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 16:13:37 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 11:51:58 -0700 2009 The Pickwick Papers is the very enjoyable, entertaining account of the adventures of the Pickwick Club. While I liked it very much, it was obvious that it was Dickens's first novel. It is not as plot driven as his other works, there were not quite as many memorable characters, nor was there as muc...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 05:13:53 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 16:40:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 09 06:14:45 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 06:18:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 07:01:35 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 09:17:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 04:59:28 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 06:07:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 09:04:58 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 17:36:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 00:02:07 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 23:34:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=229432