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The Pickwick Papers
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Start date
October 1, 2020
Finish date
December 31, 2020
Why we're reading this
4th Quarter 2020 - Long Read Read

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Julie
Sep 19, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
What an absolute joy to read! I'm slowly making my way through Dicken's major novels and this is my favorite so far. I now understand why this book made him so famous and successful. It's a very impressive first work.

You can definitely see in this book certain themes he'd end up covering in his later works. The chapters dealing with the courts recall Bleak House, the ghost stories recall A Christmas Carol, the coincidences and repeating minor characters recall....all his works!

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