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Pickwick Papers (Penguin Popular Classics)
 

The Pickwick Papers (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)

by Charles Dickens

"The Pickwick Papers" began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert Seymour. Following the success of "Sketches by Boz", Dickens was recruited to compose the words which would accompany the illustrations. Dickens quickly made the project his own and created some of his most popular characters: Samuel Pickwick, and his companions Winkle, Augustus... (read more)

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““The Pickwick Papers” was Dickens’ first novel, and it catapulted him to literary superstardom. A loose, picaresque novel in the mode of Cervantes (with Pickwick and the inimitable Sam taking up the mantle from the Don and Sancho Panza), it’s the work of a young genius, and Dickens’ comic spirit is at its purest here. The book takes some time to find its stride, but once it does it is non-stop, laugh-out-loud funny. No Dickensian darkness clouds this sunny universe.

Mr. Pickwick...”

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